Disadvantages of the PCT route, as compared to filing individual foreign patent applications, include: the overall costs are higher; it usually takes longer to get patents granted via the PCT route. Costs As a rough guide, the minimum cost of filing a PCT application (for example, having a ...
Design Patents: protect the ornamental design of a functional item. Plant Patents: protect asexually reproduced plants that are new varieties. Provisional Patents: provide a means to establish an early priority date without the need for filing a formal patent application.by...
Anything that was made publicly known before the patent application's filing date can be used against it. This includes disclosures made by you about your own invention in the UK and Europe, which is why pre-filing confidentiality is crucial....
effectively allowing localization. The basic program information consists of the most basic information needed to schedule a program, such as for example title and genre. The extended program information contains further useful information for describing a program textually and ...
For example, when sonication is used for dispersion the combination of the liquid and the additive may have the consistency of a slurry, alternatively a lower concentration of additive in the liquid may be used. [0038]It will be appreciated that the amount of additive used in a particular ...
[0093] The watermark is applied using an invertible algorithm which uses pseudo random numbers generated from one or more keys and one or more templates. An example of a suitable method of generating such a visible watermark is disclosed in copending UK applications 0029850.5, attorney file P/10...
Risk of forum shopping – there is a risk that the different local/regional divisions will take different approaches with respect to claim interpretation and substantive law. Thus some local/regional divisions may appear to be more, for example, patentee-friendly than others and result in forum ...
“prejudicial to the defence of the realm”. Section 23 of the Actprohibitsa person filing an application abroad unless written permission has first been obtained or a period of six weeks has passed since the filing of an application with the UK Patent Office and no order under Section 22 ...
“In the Board’s view, a technical effect requires, at a minimum, a direct link with physical reality, such as a change in or a measurement of a physical entity. Such a link is not present where, for example, the parabolic trajectory followed by a hypothetical object under the influence...
incentive for making your creative idea public: exclusive rights to prevent others from using your patent invention idea, selling it, making it or importing it for the duration of the patent. To better understand why patents for inventions where created, let’s look at the following example: ...