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.
Patent Annuity
What is a Patent Annuity?
The crucial part to keep a patent application or a patent in force.
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.