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Should I post-date my patent application?
Post-dating moves your application to a later date. It can buy time, but it never lets you add new matter, and it can cost you priority.
Find these facts first.
Moderate complexity - several routes or missing facts
- Application number, type (ordinary, convention, PCT national phase) and status.
- Filing date, earliest priority date and publication date, if any.
- Whether any foreign applications claim priority from it.
- What you want post-dating to achieve.
Not sure whether this applies to your invention?
The honest answer usually needs someone to look at your actual disclosure, your timeline and the prior art. That is a conversation, not an article.