IP Blogs | KAP IP

Practical notes on patents, filing strategy, and protecting what you build.

Novelty, inventive step, and industrial applicability — the three tests every application has to clear, and what each one actually means in practice.

A provisional application secures your priority date while the invention is still moving. Here is when that is the right call, and when it is not.

A few hundred dollars of searching can save you a multi-year prosecution fight — or tell you to redesign while it is still cheap to do so.

One international application, thirty months of breathing room, and a single search report before you commit to individual countries.

The FER is not a rejection. It is the examiner's opening position, and a well-structured response is how most Indian applications get to grant.

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