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What is a Patent Annuity?

The crucial part to keep a patent application or a patent in force.

Patent Annuity is the fee a patent owner must pay to renew a patent because failure to pay an annuity fee by the deadline will automatically erase the patent.

How Do We Help You?

Procedure for Patent Annuity

01 Scheduled Reminder

Am Badar & Am Badar’s specialists provide a breakdown of the costs.

02 Conducting Instruction

The client is expected to provide explicit instructions to attend to the annuity payment.

03 Payment Proceeding

Our specialist proceeds with the DGIP (Directorate General of Intellectual Property) payment.

04 Documentation

The proof of completed payment and the invoice will be sent to the client.

05 Remittance

Once the documents are received, the client is expected to make the remittance to our invoice.

06 Finalization

The patent annuity payment is updated.

Three Patentability of an Invention

New

An Invention is deemed to be new if the pertinent Invention is not similar to any previously disclosed technology.

Inventive Steps

The invention must represent an apparent improvement over any existing available product or process. The invention also must not be predicted by someone with technical skills or knowledge of the invention’s field.

Industrial Applicability

The invention must be able to be reproduced repeatedly while retaining the same qualities.

Patent registration cannot applied to:

An invention of a method for treating the human or animal body by surgery or therapy or of a diagnosis practiced on the human or animal body.

An invention that could encourage offensive, immoral or anti-social behavior, even if it satisfies the key criteria for patents.

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