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welcome to Innovation Cafe I’m Gary Schuster and I want to talk with you briefly about what to do with your top secret new invention do you want to get some protection for a immediately you can file provisional patent application with the US patent office and here’s the thing about provisional patent applications if you never claim priority to them and you just let them expire they go away sure they stay somewhere in the US Patent offices files but they’re not open for public review and no one knows what’s in them so you can go ahead and file a provisional patent application without worrying that if you put something bad in it or something wrong or if you put proprietary company information in there it will get spread out if you do file Utility Patent application and you claim priority to the provisional all bets are off and that will eventually publish but if you’re thinking about filing for example patent application eventually on some code well you have to enable your provisional application how do you do it you include the code with the provisional and you file another provisional without the code then when it comes time to file your utility application you can choose do I want to include the code or not you can push that choice back using the magic of a provisional patent application talk to your lawyer first