Patent Search

What is a Patent Search?

An investigation of existing patents and other publicly available documents to validate your invention.

A patent search is a crucial first step to establish your invention’s novelty and confirm it does not infringe on existing prior inventions

What is a Patent Search For?

Our Patent Search service ensures your invention’s novelty.

Our attorneys will assist with a pre-registration patent search. Following the investigation, they will provide detailed opinions and insights regarding the likelihood of your application being granted by the Directorate General of Intellectual Property

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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