- Ordinary Patent: It’s a patent which is filed by Indian applicant in India as first patent. It is classified in to i) Provisional patent and 2) Complete patent/specification
- Provisional patent: Provisional patent is advisable where there is only concept or idea and inventor has not worked in that idea and not sure about the end result of experiments. It provides priority date to inventor for that invention as in patent first to file system prevails.
- Complete patent/specification: If provisional patent is filed earlier, it is to be followed by complete patent application within 12 months. One can also directly file complete patent application if the product is ready with all the experimental or testing results and data.
- Convention Application: A patent application filed in India taking priority or reference of any other paris convention member country.
- PCT International Application: This is a worldwide application to smooth out the patent application process in numerous nations at one go. It facilitates patent applications and search before filing in to multiple countries. PCT (Patent co-operation Treaty) saves money, provide international search report and offer additional time to evaluate business opportunity in other countries.
- PCT National Phase Application: A patent application filed in India through PCT route is called PCT national phase application.
- Patent of Addition: Inventor can file Patent of addition when he/she comes up with improved/modified invention of earlier filed patent.
- Divisional Application: In reply to objection of unity of invention, when application divides applications, it is called divisional application.
Gujarat is growing at an unprecedented pace, and Ahmedabad is becoming the protagonist of this growth saga. With the introduction of new businesses, there has been a hike in patent service providers. However, still, there’s a gap in educating people about patent services and its forms. While we have shared from time to time about patent services and their offerings, we are here today to talk about different forms of patent services. However, before we go ahead and understand different forms of patent services, let’s first have a quick look at,
What is a patent?
A Patent is a legal ideal for a creation conceded for a restricted timeframe to the patentee by the Government, in return of complete honesty of his development for barring others, from making, utilizing, selling, bringing in the patented item or procedure for delivering that item for those reasons without his assent.
Granted for a 20-year term, according to PCT, the mentioned term of a patent starts from the date of filing the application form. The patent framework in India is administered by the Patents Act, 1970 (No.39 of 1970) as revised by the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, and the Patents Rules, 2003. The Patent Rules are consistently altered in consonance with the evolving condition, the latest being in 2016.
Now that we have a brief about what are patent services and the act that governs it, let’s have a look at a different form of patent services offered. Let’s have a look;