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Help With South African Patent Registrations Available
Before filing for South African patent registrations, get legal advice from intellectual property attorneys. Although it will cost you bit more when filing for provisional South African patent registrations when going the attorney route, the investment will be worth it.
For inventions to qualify for South African patent registrations the inventions must be absolute novel, useful to agriculture and industry, involve an inventive step and fall within the categories of allowable inventions for South African patent registrations.
For the inventor the whole process for South African patent registrations can be rather complicated. Patent attorneys are not only qualified in Patent Law, but also as engineers, scientists or technology experts in specific related fields.
This puts them in the ideal position for being able to assess the inventive step involved, whether the patent is obvious to someone skilled in the art, and to assist with the setting up of specifications, claims, descriptions and supportive drawings.
The patent attorneys also assist with the patent novelty searches for South African patent registrations by conducting in-depth patent database searches as well as journal article searches. Although in South Africa, the Patent Office will allow a patent to be registered if the application is completed correctly and the fees paid, it is still necessary to assess whether the patent meets all the requirements.
This is where the patent attorney comes in. As a skilled professional in the specific field and intellectual property laws, the attorney is actively involved in the assessment of the invention.
In addition to assistance with provisional and complete South African patent registrations, the intellectual property attorney assists with the renewal of patents, restoration of lapsed patents, setting up and reviewing of license agreements and filing patent applications in other countries.
Get the legal expertise you need for South African patent registrations.
Contact us at Smit & Van Wyk Attorneys of assistance today. |
