Description

Provisional Patent

Intellectual property in the state of patents is guarded in India when an individual registers a patent under the Indian Patent Act, 1970. Acquiring a patent prevents other individuals or situations from infringing on your creation.
Moreover, a patent registration may received on a design or a process. Under the Act, there are two types of patent specifications.

Under Section 9 of the Act, patents are specified under two classes:

• Provisional patent specification
• Complete patent specification

Accordingly, provisional patent registration is a preparation step and is taken to get protection before being able to file a full patent. A lot of details of the design and its specifications are needed to get a provisional patent.

Documents required

• Form 1
• Form 2 
• Form 5 
• Form 26
• E-filing fees 
• Form 3 
• Priority document
• Illustration/ Diagrams of the invention.

Patent Filing Procedure

• Search the patent 
• File the patent
• Specify the provisional
• Complete the specification
• Patent Publication
• Patent Examination
• Register the patent

Advantages of a Provisional Patent:

• Cost-effective
• Duration
• Pending patent tag
• Scope of abandonment
• Secrecy

What Information Will a Provisional Patent Contain?

• The name/title of the invention/design/process
• In Addition, provisional specifications(It does not have to contain a claims section)
• Description of the invention(The description of the design should not be short and narrow)
• Field and objective of the invention