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Patents
4. Record Your Ideas
Last updated: 16 Aug 2015
- It will be difficult to obtain a patent if you cannot commit your ideas to writing in any form.
- A useful exercise is to document the key concepts of your invention as bullet points for example:
- what is your invention;
- what does it do; and
- how does it do it.
- You should try to describe in writing your invention’s features and how they work together to deliver the promised functionality. This will also assist your patent attorney to assess the viability of your patent application.
- Assessing whether or not an invention is patentable requires an understanding of:
- the details of the invention itself;
- how the invention differs from ‘prior art’ (similar inventions on the public record); and
- whether the invention is both new and inventive when compared with the prior art.
- Just because an idea is new and has commercial potential does not mean it is a patentable invention.
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