Steps Involved in Obtaining Patent

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The protection of the right of any invention, innovation or idea for the development is always necessary on the moral and ethical grounds and the right should be assigned to those who honestly deserve it. Hence, Patent is an exclusive set of right assigned by the law authority to the inventor for its certain invention, innovation or any ideas which requires high level of protection. Once the patent is granted, the individual or the company becomes the sole owner of it and they have the right to use, sell, market and manufacturing of the patented product. The patent is valid for about 20 years from the day of approval. The process of obtaining patent is complicated and always requires the professional's legal expert assistance to file the successful application form. There are certain steps for filling and obtaining the patent application.

Step 1 provisional patent application: it is a type of application which file for the provisional right and it is valid only for 12 months since the day of application. Mostly the provisional patent application is being filed on the public disclosure day of any novel inventions or idea by a company or an individual. Filing for provisional patent application doesn't mean the company and the individual have received the sole right of the invention or the idea. Law authority requires time to analyze the application whether the invention is feasible or not. Hence the one year gives the ample time to evaluate the feasibility of the claim. Although, there are certain benefits of provisional patent application, yet it is a costly method. The companies who have filed for provisional application can use the term ‘patent pending' which provides them the market advantages. Sometimes company claims can be forfeited because the invention is not novel or it is already being claimed by some other company. Suppose the year is about to finish then the next step is to file for non provisional patent application.

Step 2 non provisional patent application: it can be applied as soon as the validity of provisional patent application about to get over. It is the last step of obtaining the exclusive patent right and this process is little bit stringent. The cost of non provisional application is higher than the provisional application and approval committee scrutinize the each and every aspect of the patent claim. The non provisional applications proceed on the first priority grounds who filed first being served first.  The claim of patenting inventions in non provisional application should be the same as mentioned in the provisional patent application. The level of protection is high and it might take about 2 to 4 years to receive the patent of the claim. The maximum validity of the patent is about 20 years.

Obtaining the exclusive right is highly costly procedure and there is a significant difference between the cost of provisional and non provisional patent application. dollars.  

The filling of provisional application costs around a few hundred dollars for the minor entity patent and the cost of non provisional applications might cost around a few hundred to thousands ofThe best method to obtain a patent is, file the application with the assistance of patent experts. The patent experts can guide in the right direction to obtain the patent smoothly.
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