What is a Patent?

According to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO):
“A Patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a Patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a Patent application.”

Basically, a Patent draws its rights from the Government where it is filed. Once it is granted or registered, it gives rights to the applicant to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale and importing of Patented product or process. It gives a sole monopoly to the applicant for a limited period of time, generally twenty years from the date of filing a Patent application for an invention in the Patent office. Patents provide exclusive territorial rights to the applicant in the country where the Patent application has been filed and granted.

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