- To avoid useless investment, before applying, an applicant should assess the capacity of registering that patent/utility solution and make sure that your perspective registered object are:
+ Technical solutions, which means it can be categorized as one invention/utility soluntion
+ Not categorized as object that can not be protected
+ Able to meet the standards of protection for a patent/utility solution.
- To evaluate the non-obvious and innovative level of a patent/utility solution, you should search every sources of information that you can – especially the patent information to find out a patent/utility solution having technical nature closest to your object, then compare them with each other.
- You can search patent/utility solution information yourself or through a sevrice of the NOIP; following are sources that you may concern:
+ Industrial property gazette issued monthly by the NOIP.
+ National patent/utility solution Register kept in the NOIP
+ Patent description from other countries, kept in Information and Data Center of the NOIP
- To make sure of your patent/utility solution registration, you may consider the ability to bring real benefits of the Patent. There for, you should know:
+ Whether the objects you are going to register have commercial potential
+ Whether you or others are able or ready to apply your objects into industrial fileds
+ Whether the use of such objects can bring benefits, especially economic benefits
+ Whether the secrets of your objects are worth exchanging for an exclusive certificate
To get exclusive right to exploite registered patent, you shall have to completely reveal its nature. Otherwise, if you can keep secret of the object even when the products containing it are publicized, you still take advantage over those who do not own that secret.