Applying for a Patent? Follow these steps (0)
If you have an idea, concept or invention that you feel is worthy of being protected against infringement by others, you should consider applying for a patent. In this day of age, applying for a patent will give you an “exclusive right” for up to 20 years, and even longer if the patent right is [...]
Recent Articles
How To Apply for A Patent
Application for a patent is an important step for anyone who has invented a product. This is because a patent will enable you to protect your invention from being copied or stolen by other people. Although most people may find the process of applying for a patent to be quite overwhelming, one cannot overlook this [...]
Who May Apply For a Patent?
Patent law has rules that govern who may actually apply for a patent. According to it, only the inventor of the creation is allowed to apply to patent it. This however is not stringent as there are a number of exceptions to it. Nevertheless, if one is to apply for a patent and it is [...]
Public Patent Search Facility
Before one can understand what a public patent search facility does, one would have to know what a patent is. A patent is a term referring to any legal document that prevents other individual’s from copying an invention or a creation that has already been made by one person. This legal document is often issued [...]
Differences Between Patents, Trademarks, Servicemarks, and Copyrights
Patents For an invention, a patent is an allowance giving property rights to the inventor for a limited period of time, to exclude or prohibit other stakeholders from remaking the invention, using it or trading with it for a profit. The office of patent and trademark in the U.S. determines whether or not a patent [...]
Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries
When they first came to being, patents were not only meant to protect one’s property but they were also a way of encouraging people to come up with their own inventions. Patents were also used to encourage these inventors to share with the public what they have created without the fear of having their ideas [...]
Patent Attorneys and Agents
When you come up with something original, you are best advised that you have a patent, a trademark or a copyright for it. These legal documents will not only guarantee that you have come up with a unique idea, but they will also protect you from having your concept stolen by someone else. There are [...]
Conditions for Obtaining a Patent (Novelty and Non- Obviousness)
The conditions for obtaining a patent are well laid out in the patent law of a given country or state. Patent laws even though unique for each country or region, basically govern similar aspects when it comes to the application, consideration and granting of a patent for a claimed invention. All in all patent laws typically require that: a. [...]
Patent Filing, Search and Examination Fees
There are three main types of patents. The first of these are the utility patents. These are granted to an individual or a group of people who come up with either a new process or product that can improve peoples’ lifestyle. The second are the design patents. These are the patents that are granted to [...]
Patent News
- Provisional Application for Patents
- The United States Patent and Trademark Office
- What Can Be Patented
- Immigrants, Patents and Silicon Valley
- Apple On Motorola IP Claims In Germany: “This Old Pager Patent Is Invalid” – paidContent.org
- EU regulators investigate Samsung over mobile patents
- Ortho Caps GmbH to Challenge Align Technology´s European Patents
- DPMA: Newsletter 1/12
- EPO: Case Law from the Contracting States to the EPC 2004-2011 is now available online
- What Is A Patent?
- Advanced Summit on Medical Device Patents
- Types of Patents
- Oracle offers to drop patent charges against Google, to speed trial – InfoWorld
