BASIC INFORMATION
Invention - object of intellectual property, registered with a patent work according to the Paris Convention for the protection of Industrial Property.
Registration of invention as a patent object protect useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
MOST POPULAR OBJECTS:
1. Technical devices
2. Machines
3. Manufacture
4. Useful process
5. Industrial models.
Main conditions for patentability are innovative level of work and non-obvious subject matter
OBJECTIVES OF LEGAL PROTECTION:
1. Recognition of authorship throughout the world.
2. Prohibition of unfair competition only in country of registration
3. Obtaining academic degrees, Ph.D, recognition in the scientific community
4. Participation in government projects.
5. Legalization of the use of invention by the author, protection.
Registration period
of the invention: 1,5-3 years
Validity of the patent for invention:
3 - 5 years
(depends on paid fees)
For prolongation the patent additional fee should be paid.
As an author (creator, developer) could be only private individual (physical person).
Owner (rightsholder): private individual, legal entity or their combinations
In the case of violations - fines, confiscation of goods.
Protection will be limited with registered in patent classes (services and goods).
The protection process includes the international search in the bases of registered objects.
Scope of protection: shape, technical setup, functioning of system, composition process