Pitfalls in patent applications

摘要

Patent applications are complex legal documents,and preparing and filing one requires a large sum of money in terms of attorney's fees and government fees.What's often lost in the process is the large amount of time needed from the inventors when preparing the application and participating in the patenting process.Nothing is worse than investing large sums of inventortime and money on a patent application only to have it rejected or having a patent that is unenforceable.Below I give a short introduction to the various parts of a patent application and discuss ways to avoid the six most common fatal errors battery and chemical patent cases encounter either during the application process,or when trying to enforce a granted patent.