Patent Service

What is Patent?

patent is a type of Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing a enabling disclosure of the invention.

Prior Art search

The term prior art search, is evidence that your invention is already well-known and not something unique. In other terms, prior-art is a reference of some which serves as clear proof that the invention you hold is not something unique.

Patentability Search

A novelty search or patentability search is conducted before filing a patent application to determine if the invention is novel before the inventor commits to obtain a patent. Patentability search identifies the boundaries of the invention claimed by other patent application

Patent filing

A Patent Application for an invention may be made by a natural person, true and first inventor, Legal representative of deceased true and first inventor or his/her assignee.

Patent Art Analysis

It is known that someone, somewhere, and at some time previously described, showed or made something that contains the use of a technology, process, product that is very similar to your invention.

Prior art search could be found in many forms it maybe it a patent or maybe some of the printed publication including, but not limited to, research papers, trade journals, a college thesis, an advertisement, books, videos – basically anything that is available in the public domain and is public knowledge

Patent Application

A Patent Application for an invention may be made by a natural person, true and first inventor, Legal representative of deceased true and first inventor or his/her assignee. Assignee can be a natural person or other than a legal person such as a registered company, a research organization, an educational institute.

The term of patent application is granted for 20 years from the date of filing of application. However, for application filed under national phase under Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the term of patent will be 20 years from the international filing date accorded under PCT. However, filing an application in India enables the applicant to file a corresponding application for same invention in convention countries or under PCT, within or before expiry of twelve months from the filing date in India. Patents should be obtained in each country where the applicant requires protection of his invention.

Patentability Search

A patentability search is made to identify patents and non-patent literature which may affect the patentability of an invention. This search is recommended to applicants to be done before writing and filing the patent specification, and as such is sometimes called a pre-application search.

Freedom to Operate Search / Clearance search

o Freedom to operate search is to identify active patents or published patent applications or pending patent application which claims that cover the technology, process, or product of the patent. The results of an FTO search are used to identify, from a legal perspective, whether your proposed product, process will infringe any other patents.

Patent Application in India

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The patent system in India is governed by the Patents Act, 1970 as amended by the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005 and the Patents Rules, 2003. A Patent is a rights for an invention granted for a limited period of  time to the patentee or applicant or true inventor  by the Government of  India, in exchange of full disclosure of his invention for excluding others, from making, using, selling, importing the patented product or process for producing that product for those purposes without his consent.

If you have invention that relating either to a product or process that is new, involving inventive step and capable of industrial application can be patented.

Without patent protection, your idea or invention can be quickly replicated and reproduced without your consent

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