Patent Application Filing Process and Services

United States of America has national security standards that require residents to either obtain foreign patent filing licenses or file for patents first in their representative patent office before applying for a patent in another country. Before a person who is resident in Singapore can apply for a patent overseas, he must first obtain written permission from the Registrar of Patents as required by Section 34 of the patents Act. As an exception to this requirement, an overseas application will be allowed if a patent application for the same invention has been filed in Singapore for more than two months, and there has been no direction from the Registrar given under section 33 of the Patents Act.

In the case of patent filing in United States of America, a time requirement must be satisfied between the domestic and foreign patent filing. If there are no adverse directions concerning national security, then the foreign application will be allowed.

When an application for applying for a patent from the intellectual property office of USA, it is necessary to know about certain facts related to type of patents and other legal information about US Patent norms.

United States of America allows three different types of patents: the utility patent, design patent and plant patent. In addition, the United States of America allows inventors or officially make their inventions public through a statutory invention registration mechanism. This type of registration, however, is not a patent and has limited enforcement attributes.

United States patent office does not have a provision for short term patent protection. In contrast, Japan protects short-term patents for utility models while some countries provide short term patent protection for innovation patents and utility innovations respectively.

Biz and Legis provides patent filing service for USA and European Countries. We have strong wing containing experienced attorneys for patent filing.

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