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.

Blockchain is used for various applications; one among is verification of academic certificates and work resumes. In present world, the student records are transmitted mostly in paper form, even if they are presented as PDF, we are still living in a paper based economy of student records.

Prometheus Patent services made its presence felt at the 33rd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference (“IPL SPRING”) from April 18-20, 2018, organized by the American Bar Association, USA. Our US Operations Head Ms. Soujanya Sikha represented Prometheus at this prestigious event.

Interaction with GUI is a part of our everyday life through phones, computers, gaming devices and other electronic devices. GUIs are simple icons, screen layout, and visual signals that we utilize to control these devices.

What kind of future does everyone prefer to have- Future confined to one planet or a multi-planet species? Our option for being a multi-planet species is MARS where conditions are slightly similar to Earth. When scientists have confirmed the existence of water on Mars, it raised the possibility of Human life moving to the red planet.