IP Intelligence
Patent Criticalities
The things that quietly decide whether an invention can be protected - explained before they cost you anything.
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The same thing has three different names
It matters more than it seems. If the description calls something a housing, a casing and an enclosure, an examiner has to decide whether those are one thing or thre…
Why the drawings can decide the case
Drawings are read as part of the disclosure. A well-made set can support a claim term that the text handles clumsily; a careless set can contradict the text and crea…
The invention exists but the record does not
A patent can only be as good as what the drafter was given. Where the technical record is a slide deck and a conversation, the specification ends up thin, the altern…
This is the Ragulika IP Educational Criticality - our own editorial prioritisation device, to help you decide what to read first. It is not a legal score, it is not calculated from your facts, and it says nothing about the strength of any particular application.
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