Patenting...
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Applying for a Patent
Applying for a patent is a fundamental step for most inventors and its worthwhile understanding the application process before diving in. This article is best read with...
Counteracting Patent Infringement
It is unfortunately a fact of life and indeed business that there are those who may wish to use your invention and call it their own. Likewise you may find that an...
Design Patents
Depending on the nature of an invention or product protecting its aesthetic nature, via design rights, can be as important as protecting the function via patents....
How to Do Your Own Preliminary Patent Search
It’s easier now than ever before to do your own preliminary patent searches online — what once required a trip to the cellars of the British Library...
Obtaining Plant Patents When Discovering New Varieties of Plant
While conventionally considered to be outside the normal scope of ‘inventing’ innovation in plants — creating new varieties — is an interesting area...
Patent Examining Procedure
A typical patent may well take three or four years from initial application to being granted and while the procedure is somewhat involved, it’s important for inventors...
Patent Marks and Patent Pending
When you have finally begun to manufacture your invention you need to be sure that it is not going to be exposed to unauthorised copying or manufacture without you or...
Patent Search
Patent searches are crucial to the process of turning an invention into a product. A few minutes spent looking at inventions in the same field as yours can help in three...
Trade Marking a Name For Your Invention
We have all - at some time - saw a name that makes us think of a particular brand or item or even person and every time we see this name we often...
Understanding Patent Rules as a Budding Inventor
The patent system is complex: there’s little argument about that among inventors and intellectual property professionals, since otherwise patent...
When Should You Patent?
The very nature of invention — whether it’s the 99% perspiration gradually progressing to a finished product or a sudden insight which changes everything — makes it...
