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If you ask someone to sign a confidentiality agreement before you disclose your provisional patent application to them, then you can sue them for breach of confidentiality if they steal your idea, even if your patent is not yet granted. In almost all cases, a dishonest person won't run with your exact idea, but will run their own variation of your invention. Therefore, its important that the confidentiality agreement requires that recipient assigns their rights in any vari