What You Should Know Before Filing a Provisional Patent Application? A Patent is a statutory right over an invention granted for a limited period to the inventor, in consideration for full disclosure of the invention to exclude others from utilizing the patented product or process without his consent. Indian Patent Law follows the first to file system. A provisional application is an application that can be filed if the invention is still under the experimentation stage. Filing a provision...

SPECIFICATION To obtain a patent, the inventor has to file a patent application containing a specification. The object of the specification is to provide complete information to the public about the invention and the mode of carrying it out and to define the boundaries of the invention. This article is the continuation of various stages of the patent, the previous stages of the article could be read by clicking here. The specification has to contain a written description of the invention a...

The inventive step requirement is the most subjective and complex of all patentability requirements. Under the Indian Patents Act, the assessment of the inventive step includes two aspects, technical advance or economic significance; and non-obviousness. Inventive step is simply one or a few special features of an invention that involves technical advancement when compared to the already existing knowledge or having more economic significance or in few circumstances both, which makes the inventi...