| Our team of professionals
provides efficient and effective counseling to our clients in securing
Patents and in related matters such as registering of Patent or litigating
Patent disputes. |
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| Making
the application |
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| An Application
for the Grant of a Patent should be lodged at the Sri Lanka National
Intellectual Property Office within the legally acceptable time on
the Prescribed Application Form and should contain |
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| a |
Request
for a grant of Patent, |
| b |
Description, |
| c |
Claim or
claims, |
| d |
Drawing
or drawings where required, |
| e |
Abstract, |
| f |
Prescribed
fee, |
| g |
Power
of Attorney. |
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| If it is a National
Phase Application based on a PCT Application then a copy of the first
page of the PCT Publication should also be furnished together with
an International Search Report , if available. |
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| The Specification |
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| The specification
must contain a full description of the invention, one or more claims
defining the scope of the monopoly that the applicant seeks to protect
and one or more drawings where they are necessary to enable the invention
to be readily understood. |
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| In general, the
specification should contain the following details |
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The title
of the invention, |
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The technical
field to which the invention relates; |
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The background
art, so far as it is known to the applicant and so far as it
can be considered useful for an understanding of the invention; |
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a description
of the invention in terms that can be understood and in a manner
sufficiently clear and complete for the invention to be evaluated
and to be carried out by a person having ordinary skill in the
art; |
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a statement
of the advantageous effects, if any, of the invention with reference
to the background art. |
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a brief
description of the figures of the drawings, if any. |
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the best
method known to the applicant for carrying out the invention;
this is best done by describing in example the invention with
reference to the drawings, if any; |
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an explicit
indication, when it is not obvious from the description of the
invention, the way in which the invention is industrially applicable
and the way in which it can be made and or used, and |
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Power of
Attorney as in the draft provided. This document does not need
notarialization or legalization. |
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| The claims should
define with precision the scope of the monopoly which the applicant
wishes his Patent to be protected. |
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| All the claims
should be numbered and each should be supported by the description.
i.e. every feature of each claim should be mentioned in the description?
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| If an International
Type Search Report could be provided by the Applicant it
would help the Local Patent Office to Grant the Patent based on this
report expeditiously. Otherwise the Application would be referred
to a Local Examiner for search and report |
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