Patent Law | SVW | Intellectual Property Lawyers
Under the South African Patent Law, patent rights are awarded if the invention qualifies in terms of uniqueness – thus novelty, usefulness, and inventiveness. You may think your invention is novel, but you will only be sure once a novelty search has been conducted. Not all of us are information specialists, and as such even if we search through the patent databases, the Internet, trade journals and magazines, we may still miss a similar patent. As such the services offered by patent attorneys regarding novelty searches are extremely useful.
The second part of being useful may sound easy, but under the Patent Law the invention cannot be something that is just cute. If it cannot be used in commerce, agriculture or industry it would be a useless invention and there would also be no point in developing the product. Even if an idea seems great, you will need someone skilled in patent law to investigate its usefulness. Once again, the services of patent lawyers in this regard become useful. The third part of investigation of the invention will involve its inventiveness. For this part the patent law stipulates that the invention must not be obvious to someone skilled in the trade. The patent attorney is not only qualified in law, but also in a scientific or engineering field. This ensures that the attorney can judge the inventiveness.
If you want to register your invention and want to make sure that it meets all the requirements of a patent as stipulated in South African Patent Law, contact us at Smit & Van Wyk today.
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