Long story short on provisional patents. They
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They have 12 months to file for non-provisional in order to continue to protect the IP. Any negative is if the patent is granted, then they miss out on up to the 12 months they used as a provisional patent.
If I am incorrect on this, please someone correct me. I have no problems learning something. Please bring on the education.
Full Disclosure: this information is found on the USPTO website from the links I posted previously. I will post the link again below. I did not review the WIPO site or EPO site for more info. I will leave that up to you good people. I hope to read up a lot of good DD when I get up tonight.
https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started...ion-patent
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