Saturday, April 1, 2006

Evaluate Patentability of Your Invention

Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
The patent system is designed to encourage inventions that are useful to society by granting inventors absolute right to make profit from their inventions. While disclosing the invention benefits the society, protecting the invention benefits the inventor. But patents cannot protect each and every person who conceives an invention. While there are some common criteria of accepting an invention for patenting, the laws of patenting differ from country to country to some extent. The concept of patentability is also very vague in some instances of the legal system. Hence it is important to check the patentability of your invention in order to avoid rejection. This article describes the components and mechanism of patentability assessment.

Keywords: Patent law, Patent criteria, patent assessment, patent rejection, patent application, patent searching, International law, Intellectual property, copyright law, patent approval





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