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Keep a signed and dated record of your ideas or inventions. This record can be constantly added to, and will therefore help you in the improvement, protection, and development, of your ideas or inventions. |
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Do not tell anyone about your idea or invention until you have obtained professional guidance, e.g. from us. Always ensure that you have written proof, in the form of a signed confidential undertaking, from any third party, defining their obligations to you concerning your idea or invention, before divulging any information about it to them, and ideally, have a patent application describing the idea or invention prepared and filed beforehand. It is important to appreciate that if you make your idea or invention public, you will not be able, subsequently, to protect it by means of a filed patent application.
Please refer to Case Study 3 which represents a good example of why filing a patent application before divulging any information about your idea or invention to a third party, is so important and useful. |
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Try to be very realistic about your chances of success, and research the subject matter relating to your idea or invention, thoroughly (we can do this with you/for you) before embarking on a route towards excessive expenditure. |
In order to comply with UK Patent Law, six weeks have to elapse, after filing a patent application in the UK, before a patent application on the same invention can be filed abroad. It is advisable to file a UK patent application before any disclosure about the associated invention is made to third parties, and, notwithstanding the existence of a filed patent application, disclosure should always be preceded by the signing of a written confidentiality undertaking by those to whom disclosure of details of the invention is to be made.
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© Dr Brian R. A. Wybrow CSci, C.CHEM, MRSC; Ph.D. (Lond.)
Member of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining
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