The first and foremost advantage of provisional patent is that it provides interim protection. You don’t have to worry about the patency of your product even though it happens to be in the research and development phase. Provisional patent is valid for 12 months. You can improvise or modify your invention in the meantime.

Cost-effectiveness is another advantage of provisional patent. Compared to a complete patent, provisional patent is totally cost-efficient. If monetary concern is what refrains you from patenting your invention, you are always free to choose Provisional Patent.

Patent filing date plays a major role in preserving your patent rights. If two similar applications contest for patent registration, priority is always given to the one with an earlier filing date. If you go for provisional patent, when it comes to complete patent, your date of patent registration will always be that of the provisional patent registration. This gives your invention upper hand if at all there is going to be a similar patent request.

Patent Pending Tag is yet another advantage. If you want to commercialize your invention before Complete Patent, you can do so under the label of ‘patent pending’, which imparts authority to your invention. Also, if at all you decide at one point that you do not want to go for the patent registration of your invention, if it is provisionally patented, your decision will not involve too much of financial loss since provisional patent is rather cheap. Imagine considering the same decision after doing complete patent! You will be losing a considerable amount of money.