Patent Filing
Patent Filing Services
United Innovators has launched patents and other IP services to assist its clients and customers, intending to make Intellectual Property (IP) analysis and research easier. We cultivate one-on-one relationships with our clients and partners while adhering to patent and other IP best practices. We aim to introduce the "best-of-breed" innovations into the legal arena to assist in the management, optimization, and integration of mission-critical IP ventures. We are led by a team of techno-legal experts who work to find solutions to problems that obstruct the efficacy of patents and intellectual property.
United Innovators specializes in assisting individual inventors and universities in securing strategically written patents at an affordable and reasonable cost. We provide patent filing services on a national and international level, as well as patent portfolio formation and management.
WHY WE
United Innovators has launched patents and other IP services to assist
Team of Highly Experienced Techno-Legal Professionals
Core Technical Team with Domain Expertise
High Quality Output
Developing Strong
Patent Portfolios
Cost-effective
Ontime Delivery
Services
We offer following services in patent search, registration, and litigation.
Drafting provisional & complete patent specifications for India and overseas
Filing and prosecuting applications at the Indian Patent Office and under the PCT
Comprehensive patent searching
- Prior art
- Novelty
- Patentability
- Invalidation
- Litigation support
Patent Litigation
- Oppositions
- Infringement Actions (Prosecution and Defence)
- Invalidation/revocation proceedings at the Appellate Board
- Appeals (at the IPAB and in various Courts)
Journals watch services
- Post registration services such as renewals and filing statement of working.
- Licensing and transfer of technology
- Portfolio Management
Patent Filing Process
Stage 1 : Invention disclosure
This is the first step, during which you must sign a non-disclosure agreement with a patent professional (patent agent) to reveal your invention. Here you can include all known information about your invention, as well as diagrams, explanations, and experimental results (if any).
Stage 2 : Novelty search (patentability search)
During this process, a patent specialist searches all available databases for prior art (patents, papers, theses, etc.) and creates a patentability search report based on the closest prior art found for your invention.
Stage 3 : Decide to file patent application
To be eligible for a patent, the invention must have "inventive phase" as compared to established prior art. When your innovation outperforms established prior arts in terms of either "technical progress" or "economic importance," or both, you have entered the inventive phase. When you have decided to pursue a patent, the next move is to draft the patent application.
Stage 4: Patent drafting (patent writing)
A patent application is a specialised job that necessitates knowledge of both technological (field of invention) and legal (Indian patent act) concepts. A patent is a legal document that incorporates technology and law. Many inventors who attempt to write a patent application on their own do so from a strictly technical standpoint. Writing a patent application as a technical document without understanding the legal implications may be a mistake that decreases the value of the application. The right patent specialist (patent agent) with the right expertise will significantly increase the value of a patent application.
Stage 5 : Filing Patent application
You may file the patent application in the specified manner once you have completed the analysis of the patent drafted and are satisfied with the nature and technical information in the patent application. If you do not file request for early publication, the patent application will be published on expiry of 18 months.
Stage 6 : Request for Examination
The request for examination is to be made within 48 months from the date of filing the patent application, along with prescribed form and fees. This is the request made to Indian patent office to examine you patent application.
Stage 7 : Responding to objections in examination report
The first examination report submitted to controller by examiner generally contains prior arts (existing documents before the date of filing) which are like the claimed invention, and same is reported to patent applicant.
Step 8 : Respond to objections
The majority of patent applicants will face objections based on the review report. The best thing to do is work with a patent specialist (patent agent) to analyse the examination report and come up with an answer to the concerns posed in the report. This is an opportunity for an inventor to express his or her novelty or imaginative phase over prior art that was discovered in the review study. The inventor and patent agent draft and submit a response to the examination, seeking to convince the examiner that his invention is patentable and meets all patentability requirements.
Step 9 : Grant of patent
The application would be placed for grant once it is found to be meeting all patentability requirements. The grant of patent is notified in the patent journal which is published time to time.
Stage 10 : Renewal of Patent fees
Maintaining patent for its entire lifetime that is 20 years from filing date requires renewal fees to be paid to patent office.