At the cellular level, all our senses keep ticking along neural pathways from one neuron to another in a series of electrochemical spikes and neurons connect with each other through their various tendrils. These connect with each other over tiny gaps called synapses. And they communicate between these gaps by firing ion signals along with tiny amounts of electricity. These are called action potentials. The ability to hear, communicate or see when they are not able to is actually a beautiful idea and that’s what Neuralink is doing.

Accelerated examination refers to the provision to fast-track patent applications to obtain patents for their inventions in different patent jurisdictions. The procedure to get a patent is tedious involving a great deal of intellectual and budgetary endeavors. Most often, Applicants look forward to avenues that can reduce this time in order to enjoy their IP rights. Accelerated examination in different geographical jurisdictions have different criteria and administrative requirements that need to be satisfied for a successful outcome.

While drafting the patent claims, one needs to consider the scope, characteristics, and structure of the claims. Claims include independent claims and dependent claims, where all the independent claims should be presented covering the broadest scope of the invention in light of the specification.

Patent Cooperation treaty or PCT is an international agreement that simplifies the process of filing patent applications in different countries. Administered by the WIPO, PCT is a seamless route to file an International application, provide an international filing date for a patent application and to facilitate the Applicant to formulate a suitable IP strategy before embarking into different jurisdictions.

Patent Prosecution refers to those actions that occur between filing of a patent application and its final outcome i.e., patent grant, abandonment etc. To begin with a patent practitioner should understand that an Examiner is not trained in patent drafting but is trained to examine and identify errors/faults in the claims. Further given the limited time accorded to every patent application the patent practitioner should accord due attention to the merits of the objections/rejections raised in the Office Action.

Patent quality index (PQI) is a mathematical tool to measure the quality of patent by considering the multiple aspects such as technical strength, commercial value, prosecution proceedings and legal strength. Each aspect includes multiple parameters and the PQI is measured either considering single aspect or combination of one or more aspects.

The center for policy research (CPR) reported that both the Telugu states (i.e. Telangana & Andhra Pradesh) are top in applying patents. The Government initiatives towards startups, Small & Medium Scale Enterprises provided the much needed motivation to the intellectual professionals of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for conducting research and developing innovation.

The first part of this series drew a parallel of patent prosecution in Software and Biotechnology domains with respect to US and Indian jurisdictions. Herein, we follow up the initial article with a detailed analysis on a sample software patent application that was granted in the US and Indian jurisdictions.

IPO vs USPTO PROSECUTIONS This article aims to demarcate the pertinent differences in the Indian and US Patent systems that have influenced as to how inventions can be patented in both these jurisdictions. Be it in any part of the world, these criteria must always be satisfied 1) The invention must be novel 2) The...

Prometheus Patent Services was pleased to be one of the domestic partners of the International IP Skills Summit, 2018 that was held on June 27-28 at Hotel Marriott, Hyderabad. The two-day summit saw participation from representatives across different patent offices viz. India, Singapore, EPO, ARIPO; IP counsels and IPR Heads from multinational conglomerates viz. WIPRO, IBM, TATA, Samsung, GE and Pharma giants viz. Biocon, Dr. Reddy’s Labs, Sun Pharma, Mylan Labs, Amneal Pharma; Universities; IP firms from across the world and other stakeholders.