Professional Documents
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Steps
Step 1: Determine Marketability of your Invention & Conduct your
Own Personal Market Research
If you are looking to protect your research or innovative
technology from being copied by a competitor or any other third party, you
first need to determine marketability of your invention, and conduct your
own personal market research. Patent process is a costly affair for
individual inventors, so it is very important for the inventor to figure out
whether potential consumers will have any interest in the technology which
might an innovative processes and methods, machines, articles of
manufacture, compositions of matter, and product or device. If the
inventor or the research based company has been able to determine the
viability and have identified the market for the technology, they should
thereafter prepare their own invention disclosure document.
The patent document should include information relating to:
What product or product lines does the invention relate to?
Describe a brief background, including the problems, which the
present invention aims to solve.
What are the present technologies existing to solve the problems?
What are the limitations and disadvantages of the present
technologies that exist to solve the problems?
Why is your invention novel?
Describe various features of the invention.
Advantages of the present invention
and
other
non-patent
literature
journals
to
determine