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Patent Application For Invention In Hillsborough
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The Patent Process Determine the type of intellectual property you need. Determine if your invention is patentable. Determine what kind of patent you need. Get ready to apply. Submit your application. Work with your examiner. Receive your approval. Maintain your patent.
What can be patented? Able to be used (the invention must work and cannot just be a theory) A clear description of how to make and use the invention. New, or “novel” (something not done before) “Not obvious,” as related to a change to something already invented.
Can you sell an idea without a patent? Technically, yes, you can sell an idea to a company without a patent.
Utility patent application: may be filed by anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
It usually takes between 5-10 years for the President at the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) to process an application for registration. Paris Convention priority can be claimed. Once the registration is complete INPI will issue a Certificate of Registration.
To file a patent in Brazil, it must be processed in The Brazilian entity of patents is the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). This is the official government body responsible for Industrial Property rights in Brazil being a federal autarchy of the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services.
While ideas alone cannot be patented, you can obtain a patent on an invention that was developed from an idea. Note this: if you pursue a patent, an invention must be actually produced, or at minimum, a detailed description of the invention has to be included with the patent application.
The five primary requirements for patentability are: (1) patentable subject matter; (2) utility; (3) novelty; (4) non-obviousness; and (5) enablement. Like trademarks, patents are territorial, meaning they are enforceable in a specific geographic area.
The purpose of the requirement that the specification describe the invention in such terms that one skilled in the art can make and use the claimed invention is to ensure that the invention is communicated to the interested public in a meaningful way.
What should be included in the description of invention section of a patent application? an explanation about the differences between an invention and existing offerings as well as the invention's background and advantages and the nature of troubles that it overcomes.