The increase at 23 and 24 months is due to applications that are first filed as international applications (either in a foreign country or via a PCT application with WIPO) to preserve the international priority date, then later are filed with the US. The USPTO filing date is set to the earlier WIPO filing date rather than the later US filing date (the \u201c371 Date\u201d) of the US application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSo the simple 18-month concept turns out to be pretty complex and usually incorrect, since on average patent applications are published well before the 18-month delay.<\/p>\n
Based on the analysis of the patents published in June 2015, fully 55% of patent applications are published within 12 months of filing. This actually makes patents more similar than you\u2019d expect to journal articles, which typically take 3-9 months after submission to be published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Starting in November 2000, the USPTO started publishing patent applications 18 months after their earliest filing date. So the simple assumption is that you file a patent and 18 months later it get publicized, right? However, since the US has moved to a first-to-file System, the \u201cearliest filing date\u201d is really 18 months after the earliest priority date or an application can take advantage of the 12-month grace period could be published as early as 6 months after filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64388,"featured_media":60263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6998,228,3],"tags":[8611,8609,8610,443,8612,33,139,140,866,34,236,3920,8608,3951,8727],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60185"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=60185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}