Congratulations! You’ve poured your heart and soul into an ingenious invention – a product or process with the potential to change the world. But before you celebrate, there’s one crucial…
Category: priorartsearch
What is prior art and why is it important?
Patents offer legal protection for innovations and give the inventor exclusive patent rights over the use, sale, and import of their creation for a specified period, which is usually 20…
When is an invention not anticipated by prior publication? Section 29 of Indian Patent Act
Section 29 of the Indian Patent Act deals with certain exceptions to anticipation of an invention by prior publication. This section covers multiple scenarios when a claimed invention is not…
How to read patents quickly?
There are several situations where you may have to read or skim through patents quickly because of a short span of time at hand or during a research involving reading several patents. The simplest…
How to check U.S. Patent application status
If you have filed a patent application in U.S., this article will help you check the status of your U.S. patent application. Before reading this article, you may also think…
How to do an InPASS patent search in India?
Indian patents are not typically available on Google patents. The most relevant platform to search Indian patents or patent applications is InPASS (abbreviation for ‘Indian Patent Advanced Search System’),…
How to search patents using Advanced Google Patents search
If you are familiar with how to search patents on Google, let’s take your prior art search a notch higher by looking at how to do an advanced patent search…
How to check whether your product causes potential patent infringement
In this article, we understood what are patents and the advantage patent owners enjoy over others working in their technical domain. Let’s see things from another perspective and imagine you…
What are patents and why you need to know?
What are patents? Several new inventors or techies want to understand what are patents but sometimes find it a bit complicated to understand because of complex legal language and varying…