Founded in the year 2014 by Sujata Chaudhri and located in the National Capital Region (NCR) in India, our firm provides advisory, litigation and enforcement, and prosecution services in all areas of intellectual property law.
In my last article, I discussed about that a patent is not the destination; it is the beginning of an innovation’s journey. But what determines whether that patent becomes a meaningful and valuable intellectual asset? Two stages play a critical role: patent search and patent examination. As an IP Attorney, I have seen many inventors celebrate the day their application is filed and published. It is a beautiful milestone, but filing alone does not make a strong patent. The real
In my previous article, I shared a thought why technically brilliant research often fails to become a strong patent. I just want to deliver a message to inventors or researched that was simple: innovation alone is not enough. Unless an invention is strategically protected, years of research may never translate into meaningful intellectual property. Today, I want to take that conversation one step further. However, I believe there is an even more important conversation to have
Many researchers believe that once an invention is technically sound, obtaining a patent is simply a matter of filing an application. Unfortunately, this is one of the most common misconceptions in the innovation ecosystem. Over the years, I have come across numerous technically brilliant inventions that either received weak patent protection or failed to mature into valuable patents. Why? because the underlying technology lacked merit, but because the invention was never tra
