It is important to contact
i2india or your IP Cell, before your idea/discovery is disclosed
publicly, whether through publication or presentation, to
ensure it is protected. Protecting your idea is crucial to
commercialisation as it provides a competitive advantage.
Patent protection has certain requirements; for an invention
to be patent protected it must be novel, inventive and have
an enabled practical application. The requirement for novelty
means that information on the invention should not be publicly
available, either written or orally, prior to a patent application.
Once the patent application is filed, you can freely present
and publish details of the technology.
We understand the competitive nature of research and won’t
delay publication without your explicit consent. A good time
to contact us is as the draft publication is being written
but before the concept is presented externally. If in doubt,
please approach us at the earliest opportunity. It is better
for us to become involved at the earliest stages, rather than
late in the research process, as it gives us more time to
make a thorough assessment of the technology.
However, if we become involved later in, we can quickly
make the decision as to whether or not to prepare and file
a patent, or provide an opinion on whether your invention
can be protected yet.
Researchers should bear in mind that patenting is an expensive
process, so we do not file or recommend filing patents on
all the research we deal with, and also that sometimes a patent
is not necessary (e.g. if another form of IP is sufficient
for protection.)
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