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What is provisional and non provisional patent? How long does a non provisional patent last? How much does it cost to file a non provisional patent? What are the 3 types of patents?

Mosaicing Indian Patent Law

As per the Indian Patents Act 1970, an invention is patentable when it satisfies the following criteria:

  1. It is novel
  2. It has an inventive step or it must be non-obvious
  3. It has Industrial applicability
  4. It doesn’t fall under section 3 and 4 of the Patents Act 1970.

A person skilled in the art accesses methodologies for evaluating inventive step based patent laws.

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