Things You Should Know About Inventions and Public Disclosure
Why Should You Patent Your Invention
An invention is a method or device, composition, system, process or method that is novel, inventive and useful, in a technology that is considered patentable. If your invention is a business bottleneck or technological junction, then it’s worthwhile patenting. In other words,if your competitors need your patented invention in order to develop their own technology and in order to compete with you effectively, then it’s valuable to your business.
When do You need to evaluate Your inventions and potential patents?
Equally important is that to be patentable, your invention needs to be sufficiently ‘inventive’ when compared to the ‘state of the art.’ That means that even if no one else has already filed a patent application for the same or similar invention, any publicly available information, including posted digital content, or in magazines, newspapers, and press releases, anywhere in the world, can be used by patent examiners to reject a patent application or by a Court to invalidate a granted patent.
About Public Disclosure
Knowledge is power. Providing knowledge to someone who could potentially use this knowledge for his or her own benefit is giving your power away. It can also make it impossible for you to obtain patent protection for an invention which has been disclosed, a fully drafted patent application has been filed before public disclosure of the invention. An exception to this rule is in the United States, which provides a limited grace period of one year following the date of public disclosure during which a patent application can still be filed without harm from the disclosure.
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