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This Practice Note discusses the grounds for Patent invalidity and revocation under the Patents Act 1977 (PA 1977), focusing on lack of novelty (anticipation) and insufficiency.
The overview summarises the main considerations relating to the protection and ownership of patents, both in the UK and internationally, and the management of a patent portfolio.
WIPO’s PATENTSCOPE database provides free-of-charge online access to millions of international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) System as well as patent documents filed at national and regional patent offices such as the European Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Patents protect technical inventions, for example a product, a process or an apparatus, in all fields of technology. For an invention to qualify for patent protection, it must be novel, involve an inventive step and be industrially applicable.
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. [1]
Nicholas Ferrar. In this guide we provide a summary of the procedures involved in patenting inventions in the UK. What is a patent? A granted patent is a form of intellectual property right (IPR), and provides a monopoly or exclusive right that is granted for an invention.
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Gain access to international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) application on the day of publication and search through more than 43 million patent documents of participating national and regional patent offices in WIPO's PATENTSCOPE database.
