Finding a good Patent agent in india

Intellectual rights are like land rights the more you have it more you want to acquire, and in the large demography like India it is tough to find a good patent agent who can work efficiently and give you the best results out of your intellectual rights, any new inventor who thinks he has done something incredible needs to patent his/her invention otherwise they will end up having nothing for their notable work in the field to technology. So i decided to dig some Professional...

Freedom To Operate Searching Guidelines

Is it quite common and important practice to conduct FTO search before launch a new product in market as it tells about the competitors in the market and also tells from whom license for the technology has to be taken to sell that product.  There are few things that need to be considered while conducting an FTO search. You should know in which country/region company is about to launch the product as the patent is jurisdiction specific you need to focus on only countries...

Search String types

Broad Search Strings Result sets are in wide range. Objective is to catch as many prior art as possible When narrow strings are not providing desired results.  Most Helpful When:  Researcher is not familiar with the subtleties and nuances of a patent  Researchers need to learn broader themes (classifications), keywords, and ideas for the patent study      Narrow...

steps to conduct patent search

This post demonstrates few typical steps taken in prior art search, with some steps being more or less applicable for each of the different types of searches, and every step can be further divided if needed. 1) Read disclosure/description/patent document of interest carefully and determine its novelty. 2) Extract all keywords (use dictionaries like thesaurus for assistance). 3) Create Boolean search strings using various keyword combinations while avoiding...

Patent Translations for non english patents

There is always a problem with translations in the hunt of most relevant prior art. I have dealt with the same on numerous occasions. though there are some tips which can help to get some good machine translation free of cost, as most of the time searcher only needs an idea of how invention works. JAPAN As japan is a major patent authority it is often required that Japanese patents can be machine translated though PAJ provides good and reliable machine translation but it only...

Google's updated Prior Art Search

Recently Google has added a new service to its patent search service "Prior art search".the blue button left to read this patent.This tool tries to find relevant prior art to the subject patent. It is a good value addition by google though it is still in its early stages and results are not very good but it is likely to get better. There is the screen shot that how it works. There is also a addition...

Inventive Step

In many laws, the inventive step requirement means that a claimed invention shall not be obvious to a person skilled in the art at the time of the filing date (or, where applicable, priority date), or at the time the invention was made, in view of the prior art. In some countries, instead of the expression “obvious” (or “non-obvious”), expressions such as “inventions which could have been easily made” or “[an invention] having prominent substantive features and representing...