Any additional information that you can offer on this subject will be appreciated.
I'm right - and I'm wrong, depending on which side of the Atlantic you're sitting. The US has unilaterally gone sideways on this, despite Patents being very much an International thing.
From US Patent Office web
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/provapp.htm
Provisional Application for Patent Filing Date Requirements
The provisional application must be made in the name(s) of all of the inventor(s). It can be filed up to 12 months following the date of first sale, offer for sale, public use, or publication of the invention. (
These pre-filing disclosures, although protected in the United States, may preclude patenting in foreign countries.)
Such as the rest of the world.
