A legal document that describes an invention and specifies the scope of the patent protection sought for that invention is known as patent draft. The quality and accuracy of the drafted document can have a significant impact on the strength and enforceability of the resulting patent, making it an essential step in obtaining a patent.

Patents provide legal protection for innovative ideas, inventions, and technologies developed by research firms. They grant exclusive rights to the patent holder, preventing others from using, manufacturing, selling, or importing the patented invention without permission.

The priority date is the date on which a patent application is deemed to have been filed. It establishes the timeline for assessing the novelty and prior art of the invention. The priority date determines the order of priority among multiple patent applications for the same invention. It establishes the effective filing date for evaluating the novelty and inventive step of the invention.

A freedom to operate search, also known as a clearance search or right-to-use search. This patent search helps the businesses determine whether their proposed product or process would infringe any existing patents in a particular jurisdiction.

Patent Landscape is a comprehensive analysis of the available insights into a specific technology, either within a given country or region, or globally. The Patent Landscape search and analysis is amalgamation of Human Mind and software analysis. It is also known as State of Art Analysis or Patent Mapping. The patent mapping can be done of existing, pending, and active patents, in a specific area of interest.

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) on February 09, 2021 has issued the Draft Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 to further amend the Patents Rules, 2003. Please follow the article to know the critical amendments that have been made.

As per the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), China is now leading as the country with the greatest number of patent applications filed globally. Since the commencement of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in 1978, the United States of America has held this position, which has now been taken over by China.

As we witness the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the digital transformation is at its peak and is in harmony with software development. Thus, the software industry and the development of various software-based technologies are anticipated to grow exponentially to sustain the transformation. From transportation to healthcare and from services to education, the software based inventions play a significant part in the transformation process across all industries.

The World Health Organization (WHO) explains COVID-19 (coronavirus) as the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It is popularly referred to as the cousin of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).

Off late there has been a lot of attention on the Intellectual property Policy of China. In relation this aseries of round table discussions (AS IN THE TITLE)was held at the USPTO headquarters on the 20th of November, 2019. The participants were from law schools, American Intellectual property law Association, the USPTO, Law firms, Business Schools and Business council amongst others