IP Intelligence
Inventor's Red Flag Checklists
Short, honest checklists to run before you disclose, file, respond, license or launch.
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Before you disclose your invention
India has no general grace period. Anything already available to the public before your priority date can be prior art against your own application - including thing…
Before you file
Filing is cheap to do and expensive to do badly. These are the things that cannot be fixed afterwards.
The week after you file
Filing starts several clocks at once and nothing will remind you about any of them.
Before filing outside India
The twelve-month priority window is effectively immovable, and section 39 catches Indian residents in a way most people never hear about.
Before you publish or submit a paper
For researchers, the order of publishing and filing is worth more than almost any other decision. In India, publishing first usually destroys novelty in your own wor…
Before signing a research collaboration
Collaboration agreements decide ownership, publication and control years before anyone knows what will be invented.
Before choosing secrecy over a patent
Both choices are legitimate. The decision turns on one question that is easy to answer honestly and easy to avoid.
Before a trade show or demo day
Events are where the most expensive disclosure mistakes happen, because everything about them is designed to make you show more.
Before you choose a patent agent or attorney
Drafting quality is invisible at the time and decisive later. These questions surface the difference.
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