专利数据案例研究1——关于临时申请的问题 （1）最近在分析专利数据的时候发现了一些比较诡异的现象，仔细研究之后发现了问题来源于临时优先权问题，所以做了记录，以便后续学习归纳。 （2）具体的案例是US2003104318A1，用这个公开号在DII上检索，会出现两条记录。 （3）起初这个让我百思不得其解。因为,DERWENT的的两条记录的入藏号是有区别，分别为2003-616623，2003-441023，而且，这两条记录虽标题，专利权人相同，但其他如引文、NOVERLTY、USE等信息均不同。这种情况与我们通常认知的DERWENT专利家族_ Commercial novelty -based families（这里不详细解释） 定义存在一定的出入。 当仔细比较两条记录的差异时，在更多专利详细信息中发现了一些线索，提示US2003104318-A1 Provisional Application US322408P （4）于是查阅 US2003104318-A1原始文档发现，果然，在图1左下角，Related U.S application Data中指明该专利是存在临时申请的，而且时间是2001年9月14日。 （5）接下来，想继续查找该临时优先权原始信息，发现一些困难，原来， 临时优先权通常是不公开的，这在一些特例的情况下公开，但仍是可以尝试找到，未来将试一下。 Provisional Patent Applications Are Not Published Provisional patent applications are not published since they are not examined and they are only pending at the U.S. Patent Office for 12-months. After 12-months, a provisional patent application automatically becomes abandoned and therefore will never be published. Only a non-provisional patent application can be published by the U.S. Patent Office. Hence, a provisional patent application will remain secret at the U.S. Patent Office with a few exceptions discussed below. Exceptions to Provisional Patent Application Secrecy While a provisional patent application is never published by the U.S. Patent Office for the public to view or search, there are two situations when a provisional patent application will be made publicly available for inspection. If a non-provisional patent application is filed claiming priority to the provisional patent application and the non-provisional patent application is either (i) published or (ii) granted as a patent, then the public may download a copy of the provisional patent application via Public PAIR or request a copy of the provisional patent application. It is important to note that this is not publication of the provisional patent application and the provisional patent application cannot be publicly searched - the only access is provided by Public PAIR or a direct request from the public to inspect the provisional at the U.S. Patent Office.
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