Top Patent Filing Firm in India
PatnTech is a top-rated firm for patent filing in India. A patent grants the inventor exclusive rights to make, sell, or use their invention for a limited time. A patent in India can protect devices, methods, and software (when involving a technical effect). Our expertise ensures a seamless PCT patent filing process in India, guiding you through the complex patent registration procedures.
PatnTech also helps to file PCT Filing from India.
How Prior Art Search helps with Patent Filing in India
To file a patent in India, the invention must be novel, non-obvious, and industrially applicable. At PatnTech, we conduct thorough prior art searches to identify existing patents and literature, ensuring your invention is unique. This approach streamlines the patent filing procedure in India.
Patent Drafting and Illustrations: Essential Steps for Patent Filing in India
PatnTech assists in drafting high-quality patent applications, whether provisional or complete, according to your invention’s development stage. We ensure compliance with patent offices, offering expert patent drafting and illustration services to support your application. Subsequently, we guide you through the patent filing procedure in India and other countries of your preference.
How to Apply for a Patent in India
Whether the client wants to file a patent application in India or different jurisdictions via PCT or directly before USPTO, EPO, China, or other jurisdictions to obtain patent protection, Patntech ensures a seamless process. Our leading patent agents in India customize the patent specifications to meet local filing requirements, considering patent registration fees. We also collaborate with top patent attorneys in other jurisdictions and assist them throughout the patent filing procedure.
National Phase of Patent Applications in India
We handle foreign or PCT applications entering the Indian national phase before the Indian Office. Our services include reviewing the application and related documents, offering suggestions for corrections or amendments to meet Indian standards for PCT patent filing.
Provisional Patent Application in India
Provisional Patent Application in India offers a temporary filing provision for an invention, providing a priority date for the invention. This initial filing can be beneficial for securing rights while you continue to develop and finalize the invention’s details.
Patent Prosecution
The team at PatnTech has in-depth knowledge of the complexities and nuances of patent office examinations (examination report). Our team is capable of providing accurate technical analysis and response strategy that can be presented to the Patent Office to overcome the objections.
We can handle office actions from Indian Patent Office (IPO), U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), Australian Patent Office among others.
Patent Validity
Patent validity/invalidity searches are conducted to either validate the claims in an issued patent or to invalidate one or more claims of a competitor’s patent.
Our team has extensive experience in several technology domains including Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunication, Information Technology, etc to unearth one or more prior art references that the patent examiner overlooked so that a patent can be declared invalid. We specialize in Patent Registration in India, ensuring that your invention is fully protected.
Infringement Analysis and Freedom to Operate (FTO) Search
Before launching your product in India, we conduct an FTO search to ensure it does not infringe on existing patents. This essential step helps to avoid legal complications and ensures a smooth patent registration process in India.
Top PCT Patent Filing Agents in India
With expertise across diverse technology sectors, PatnTech ensures a seamless patent filing experience. We guide you through every step, ensuring your invention is fully protected and your patent registration in India is completed smoothly.
FAQs
What is a Patent?
A patent is a legal right given to the patentee by the State to exclude all others from making, using or selling the invention for a certain period of time, usually 20 years. Subsequently, the inventor must disclose the invention so that it is free for all others to use when the patent expires.
Why do I need a Patent?
Securing a monopoly for a technical invention and also to create a valuable Intangible Asset. Today, a large portion of assets of major companies across the world are in Intangible form. Nearly 90% of the value of the Big Five tech companies(Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Alphabet(Google) comes from their Intangible Assets.
What is patentable?
For a valid patent, an invention must be
- novel
- involve an inventive step
- be capable of industrial application.
What is Novelty?
An invention is new if it does not form part of the state of the art. The state of the art comprises everything made available to the public, anywhere in the world, by means of a written or oral description, by use, or in any other way, before the date of filing of the patent application.
What is an Inventive Step?
It is a feature of an invention that involves a technical advancement as compared to the existing knowledge or having economic significance or both, and that makes the invention not obvious to a person skilled in the art.
What is prior art?
Prior art is evidence proving that the invention was known earlier. Prior art may include published disclosures, public demonstrations / use, disclosed to the public by other means, and oral descriptions,
I have disclosed my invention in a conference or on Social Media; can the corresponding publication stop me from getting a patent?
The prior art constitution varies among various jurisdictions. For example, the US patent law accepts “your disclosure” if it has been made within a year prior to the patent filing date. Other countries including India and Europe have a first to file concept where your own disclosure can constitute prior art for your patent application.
Do I need to conduct a patent or prior art search before filing a patent?
A patent search helps to know if your invention already exists or is similar to any other known invention. You can explore patent databases and other available resources to identify prior art.
What happens if there is prior art of your invention?
It simply means your patent application may get rejected on the ground of not being unique or being similar to an existing invention.
What is a Provisional Patent application?
A provisional application is a legal document filed before the Patent Office that establishes an early filing date, but does not mature into an issued patent unless the applicant files a regular non-provisional or complete patent application within one year.
What if I don’t file a complete patent application after filing provisional patent application?
The provisional patent application gets abandoned and you cannot claim priority to your provisional patent application.
What is the complete specification?
A complete Specification is a regular patent application that the patent office prosecutes, examines and grants. A complete specification consists of the full disclosure of the invention along with claims that define the legal limits of the invention.
What should a patent specification contain?
Field of invention.
Background of the invention.
Brief summary of the invention.
Brief description of the drawings.
Detailed description of the invention.
Claims.
Abstract
Drawings, if any.
What does patent pending mean?
The term “patent pending” refers to a patent application that is pending before the patent office. Patent pending means that the application has been filed with the patent office, the application is pending with the patent office, but no patent has been granted or issued.
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