Patent Service in Fateh Nagar, Delhi

A patent is an intellectual property right in India. It is a statutory right for an invention granted for a limited period of time to the patentee by the Government, in exchange of full disclosure of his invention which prohibits others, from making, using, selling, importing the patented product or process for producing that product for those purposes without his consent. The validity of registered patents in India is 20 years from the date of filing of application. However, for an application filed under the national phase under the Patent Cooperation Treaty(PCT), the term of the patent will be 20 years from the international filing date accorded under PCT. The patent registration in India is governed by the Patents Act, 1970 and the Patents Rules, 2003.

Patenting is a very time consuming and strenuous process which can be a little expensive for the inventor. Only when the inventor fills a patent application, he is subject to be the assignee of the patented invention. A request pending at a patent office by the owner of the patent for getting registered as an official holder of the invention is referred to as patent filling application. This application form encompasses the description of the invention, official norms and all the information regarding the invention. When government grants the domination of the invention to the inventor, the inventor is the registered holder or assignee of the invention that is patented. Intellectual property law firms excels in offering aid regarding various aspects of intellectual property like patent filing, international patent filing, trademark registration and patent registration. These services are provided by a pool of experienced and well qualified attorneys and personnel, who take care of the interests of the patent holder or the inventor applying for patent. By filling Patent form applications only, an owner can make the invention his own property for a fixed duration.

A Patent is an exclusive monopoly granted to an inventor over his invention for a limited period of time. It provides an enforceable legal right to prevent others from exploiting an invention. Patent Search It is prudent to conduct searches as early as possible to avoid spending time and money re-inventing a known matter. A patent is not granted to an invention if it is already available with the public either in the form of published literature or common knowledge. Filing and Prosecuting Patent Applications The procedure for the grant of a patent starts with filing of the patent application along with the presribed fees at the appropriate office* of the patent office followed by filing of request for examination in the prescribed format (present time limit within 36 months), after the publication of the application. Presently, application for patent is not open to open to public for 18 months from the date of filing or date of priority, though the applicant can request for early publication. The applications are examined substantively and a first examination report stating the objections is communicated to the applicant. Application may be amended in order to meet the objections. Normally all the objections must be met within 12 months from the date of first examination report. If the applicant does not comply with the objection, the application will be abandoned. Upon complying the requirements the application is published in the Official Journal. At that time, opposition can be filed on limited grounds, but hearing is not mandatory. Patent will be granted if the application is found to be in order. Then, the application and other related documents will be open for public inspection. Thereafter, at any time after the grant but before the expiry of a period of one year from the date of publication opposition on substantive grounds is available. The whole process typically takes at least two years.

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A patent search is a search of existing patents and other publicly available documents to locate the closest existing things to your invention. A patent application is examined by the patent office and can only be issued if the patent examiner is convinced that the invention is new and not an obvious combination of things in the prior art. The data obtained from the patent search is used by the applicants to find related patents. A patent search is the first thing that is done in the process of patent registration. The objective of the patent search is to determine how the invention done is different from what already exists in the prior art. But we must keep in mind that the patent search will not tell us whether your invention infringes someone else's patent or not. Types of patent searches and opinions There are different types of patent searches and opinions not commonly known by many inventors. Below are the four types of patent searches. 1. Novelty or patentability Search Novelty or patentability is the most common search that is requested. This type of search is used to determine the likelihood of getting a patent through USPTO (United trades patent and Trademark Office). Generally, startups or the new inventions will request a novelty search in order to see whether their invention is patentable and worth the money and time to pursue. 2. Freedom to operate search FTO (Freedom to operate) search sometimes known as clearance search operated to determine if the inventor is free to operate the invention without any fear of getting used for infringement. The purpose of the FTO search is not on the disclosure portion of the prior art as in novelty search but the claim portion of the in-force patents found. Because of this reason, Freedom to operate (FTO) searches is tending to be much more complicated.

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