Abstract Almost every company has some proprietary information that acts as a secret of their success. This information is always kept confidential from the competitors. This information is called trade secrets. Theft of the trade secrets is known as “Economic Espionage”. In the present study, we will first learn the Read more…
Introduction A prior art search is conducted to identify relevant published work in a particular domain of technology. There exists a plurality of techniques to conduct a prior art search, among them the keyword and classification based searches are widely used. However, sometimes to find the relevant prior art, these Read more…
The Indian Government has taken up initiatives to reduce the time taken to examine patent applications. One of these initiatives was the option of the expedited examination of patent applications in which the application examination is done within an expedited period of time that is approximately less than 12 months. Read more…
IntroductionPatent File Wrapper, as the name suggests, is a file that wraps all the documents involved in prosecution as well as opposition (if any) of a particular patent application. It is the complete documentation of a patent application comprising all the documents related to a patent such as drawings, block Read more…
Patent laws have a qualitative impact on the working of researchers, inventors, and attorneys. Even a single misconception regarding a rule can cause a big loss. The grace period is one of the important laws which play a very prominent role in the world of the patent. In this study, Read more…