Patent Registrations

November 26, 2009
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

Patent registrations provide inventors with some large and extensive benefits. If you have come up with an idea, but someone else beats you to the market with the same idea, you will have lost all rights to claim that idea or the benefits it provides if you have not registered it as a patent.

If, however, you had filed an earlier patent application, which eventually proceeds to a granted patent, you may stop your competitors from exploiting your invention – your date is the earliest and thus the patent rights accrue to you.

Contact Smit & Van Wyk Incorporated for any and all patent registrations. We are a legal agency that specialises in matters concerning South African intellectual property laws.

Our expert legal personnel will be able to guide you the process of patent registrations quickly and efficiently.