Patent Information System,

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Importance use of patent
information
By
Mrs. Chhaya Satpute
Senior Documentation Officer
Patent Information System, Nagpur-
440 006
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Patent

• Trade between inventor and government

• Pays fee discloses full details

• Awarded with legal monopoly

• Not enforced automatically

• Responsibility of the patentee

• Allowed to be used for limited time

• Within the country

• Disclosed technical information

• Published as patent document

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IMPORTANCE OF PATENT INFORMATION
A Patent is granted

• Inventor

• Invention

• Successful solution to technical problems

• Not restricted to specific area

• Nor limited to improvement

• Novel

• inventive step

• Industrially applicable

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• Territorial Right

• Used freely in other countries

• On public knowledge

• about 45 Million published

• Industrially developed countries

• Indias contribution about 2,00000

• 99.9 inventions free

• Similarly to other countries

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GENERATION OF PATENT INFORMATION

• Act of filing patent application

• Information made available through
• Patent office Journal

• Register of patent

• Patent specification most important

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EXPLOITATION OF PATENT INFORMATION

• Enriches scientific knowledge

• Stimulates inventive ingenuity

• Technology used by patentee

• During term period

• Within the country

• On advertisement

• Public knowledge

• On expiry

• Public property

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CONTENTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATION

• Who filed the application

• When it was filed

• Where it was filed

• Field of invention

• Title

• Abstract

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• Text of Patent Specification

• Relevant prior art

• Enumerates defects

• Technical field

• Problems addressed

• Advantages

• Description of invention

• Manner in which to be practiced

• Ascertain the invention

• Claims defining scope of invention

What constitutes infringement
Monopoly claimed
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ADVANTAGES PATENT SPECIFICATION

• Earliest publication

• Uniform structure

• Complete document

• Unique source

• Easy access

• Widest coverage

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PATENTABILITY SEARCH

• Prior to undertaking expense of filing

• Whether a patent application should be filed

• New, useful non-obvious

• Research into technological field

• Measured on existing patents

• prior art preceding invention

• identical inventions bars newness

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INFRINGMENT SEARCH

• Searching patent office records of the country

• Search is limited in time

• For duration of patent subject to renewal
• fees

• Expired patents are not searched

• Searched relative to unexpired patents

• Used avoiding infringement of issued patents

• Preceded by State of the art

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STATE OF ART SEARCH

• Existing technological patent literature

• Identify current level of technical development

• Avoid expensive duplicate developments

• Assess the risk of infringement a patent

• Search patents relevant to your field

• Gives information about inventors, owners

• Own product development on current
• State-of-art

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NAME SEARCH

• Inexhaustible sources of information

• Knowledge to gain over your competitors

• Trace technological activities of competitors

• Identify markets of their interest

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LEGAL STATUS SEARCH

• Contains technical, bibliographic legal
  information

• To know legal status of patents

• Tells whether patent application published or
  granted

• Tells whether patent in force

• Help you prevent patent infringement

• Help avoid paying license fees

• Local/ overseas technology used without licensing

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FAMILY SEARCH

• Patented in more than one country

• Conventions provide protection of priority date

• Earliest application forms priority doc

• Tied together by identical priority date

• Possible to identify family members

• Overcomes the language barrier

• Identical technical contents

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Thank You
IPTI, NAGPUR
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PATENT SEARCH

• Search results indicate that an idea has already
  been patented

• Provide new inspiration and ideas for the
  inventor

• More informed about the strength of your
  invention

• Search will help you become a more informed
  client

• To help determine whether your invention is new

• To document relationship to other inventions

• To familiarize yourself with patents