It was a pleasure to be invited by The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys to speak alongside Nick Kounoupias of Kounoupias IP on the subject of IP and Music as part of the Two IPs In A Pod series.
If you’d like to hear me getting excited about drop tuning, MIDI and ABBA, or if you’d like to hear about Nick’s life-saving skills, please check it out here or on Spotify below.
What Is A Provisional Patent Application? A UK Inventor’s Guide
What Is A Provisional Patent Application? (And What It Means in the UK) If you’re an inventor, founder or early-stage startup, you may have heard the phrase “provisional patent application”. We’re often asked: “Can you file a provisional patent application for us?”. “Can we file something quickly and then ‘finish it off’ later?”. This is understandable, but the terminology can be unhelpful, especially in the UK. In this post, we’ll explain: What “provisional patent application” formally means in the US. Why the UK patent system doesn’t use the term in the same way. How priority dates work and why your
