Patent

A Patent is a statutory right for an invention granted for a limited period of time to the patented by the Government, in exchange of full disclosure of his invention for excluding others, from making, using, selling, importing the patented product or process for producing that product for those purposes without his consent.

The term of a patent in the Indian system

The term of every patent granted is 20 years from the date of filing of application. However, for application filed under national phase under Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the term of patent will be 20 years from the international filing date accorded under PCT.

Patented

An invention relating either to a product or process that is new, involving inventive step and capable of industrial application can be patented. However, it must not fall into the categories of inventions that are non- patentable under sections 3 and 4 of the Act.

The criteria of patent ability

An invention is patent able subject matter if it meets the following criteria –

i) It should be novel.

ii) It should have inventive step or it must be non-obvious

iii) It should be capable of Industrial application.

iv) It should not attract the provisions of section 3 and 4 of the Patents Act 1970 http://www.trademarkregistrationincoimbatore.in.