PATENTS

Patent is a form of intellectual property right. It protects the patentee’s interests for his invention.A Patent can be defined as a set of exclusive rights granted by the government to a patentee for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated public disclosure of certain details of an invention.A patent can be obtained for a device or a method,process or composition of matter which is new, inventive and useful industrially or commercially exploitable.

 

Patent is a State grant in the name of the inventor.Patent gives the privilege to make,manufacture,use and right to authorize others to use it.

 

Why Patent?

To promote inventive genius,secure inventor rewards for inventing,give monopoly for commercial exploitation of the invention.

 

What can be Patented?

method(like the google search algorithm),formulation(of a product),machine or a manner of manufacturing.

 

Who can apply for a Patent?

Person claiming to be the true and first inventor of the invention,the assignee of the inventor,legal representative of the deceased person who immediately before his death was entitled to make such application.

 

How to apply for a Patent?

Patent is obtained through application complete in all respect.Then the process consists of 4 stages:office objections,grant of patents,opposition enquiry and the final order.

 

Once the controller makes the order for granting patent, the applicant has to make an application for the issue of patent and for sealing it.The date of sealing is relevant for the purpose of calculating the term of patent.

 

Anyone can oppose a patent if its a wrongly obtained invention or if the invention is already published.A notice of opposition in triplicate shall be sent by the objector to the controller within four months of publication.