Confidentiality

It is necessary that an invention or design is not disclosed to anyone until suitable protection is filed. Disclosure is by publishing, displaying, offering for sale or selling an invention or design. Disclosure prior to filing may reduce the scope of protection that may otherwise be available or prevent a valid patent or design registration form being obtained. A confidentiality agreement is advisable and we recommend you seek IPM-Cell or our Legal Dept. before disclosing your invention or design.

Searches

Doing a research of the Patent, Design or Trademark register is recommended before committing resources to protect or exploit an Intellectual Property, or for any business importing the products too. The good reasons for conducting a patent or design search is, it will determine that whether manufacturing or marketing a product will infringe any patents or registered design in the market and it will also assess the degree of Patentability of an invention. Further it also helps us to understand the new technology areas being developed and protected by others and evaluating such developments. For trademarks, a search will determine whether use of a trademark in relation to certain goods or services will infringe any registered trademark.

Risks

The new products or designs proceed to market without protection, may run into infringing of Intellectual property rights.

This may arise a serious situation to resolve with defending an infringement action or settling a dispute. Other losses like adverting the product, brand etc., leads to unhealthy business reputation or relationships. Not taking steps to ensure that we are free to market the product in any country could lead to expensive and unwelcome litigation by others.