Pct Patent Application

A patent is an exclusive monopoly rents granted by the government to an inventor over his invention for a limited period of time. It provides an enforceable legal right to prevent others from exploiting an invention. Invention as defined in the Act as a new product or process involving an inventive step and industrial application. Patents symbolize a powerful intellectual property rights. Registration of patent annuities gives its owner the exclusive right to use, manufacture or sell his invention to the patent term. This means that development can be made, used, distributed or sold without the consent of the patentee. Patent rights can generally be applied in a court of law.


An inventor or any other person or company assigned by the inventor may apply for and obtain a patent on the invention. A patent drafting is obtained by the sender or his assignee by filing an application with the appropriate office of the patent office in stipulated forms and fees as required by law. It is prudent to conduct searches as soon as possible to avoid spending time and money reinventing a known case. A patent drafting is not granted for an invention if it is already available with the community, either in the form of published literature or common knowledge. Patentable inventions must generally meet certain criteria. The invention must be industrially applicable, must be new and must involve an inventive step which could be deduced by a person reasonably competent in the field. Above all, its purpose must be accepted as "patentable" under law.

All PCT Applications designating India are considered as Indian Patent Applications filed on the date of the international application. The deadline for entering the national phase is 31 months from the priority date.
Issuance of the patent is valid for 20 years from its international filing date. It must be renewed annually by paying the prescribed fee from the third year following the year of filing the international patent application within three months of this insinuation. After a patent has been issued, articles manufactured under the patented invention may be represented as "patented.''The number of patents must be indicated on the product.


The process of PCT patent application usually involves the implementation of prior art searches to distinguish the invention and develop a description that illustrates the best method of operation of the invention. The description of evolution is called specification. According to the sufficiency of the description of a specification may be either provisional or complete specification. A draft specification is often the first application in respect of an invention, and generally contains a brief description of the invention. It does not contain claims. Compared with the provisional measure contains complete full description of the invention, and the best way to do the work of invention. The full specification includes a title field of the invention, the environment of the invention, the description of the technique related disadvantages of the prior art, the abstract of the invention, a brief description of characters, detailed description of preferred embodiments, the claim.