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Conduct a thorough prior art search:  Conduct a thorough Prior Art search to find relevant prior art that affects novelty and non-obviousness. That includes a search of published patents and patent applications, publications, and products being sold in public. A prior art search is important because it helps determine whether an invention is novel, non-obvious, …

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Software inventions are increasingly important today because they enable automation, speed, connectivity, innovation, and effective data management. Businesses who innovate using software gain competitive advantage over more traditional businesses. Software is also one of the most valuable assets of technology companies today, and the most valuable and wealthy companies such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, …

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Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into sculptures, which many consider complicated. But once mastered,  you discover its simplicity and find much pleasure in this art form. Similarly, the patent process is not easy, but Metayage makes it simple.  At the outset, the process of obtaining a patent seems to be a daunting journey, …

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In our years of filing patent applications, we have come across many entrepreneurs and innovators. Some with such resilient and innovative minds that we crave for their patents to be granted and their intellectual property to usher huge dividends. No entrepreneur is obsolete from failure. But the ones that find a solution or lesson from …

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In business and accounting, an asset is defined as anything owned, whether in possession or by right to take possession, by a person or a group acting together, e.g. a company, the value of which can be expressed in monetary terms. According to Robert Kiyosaki, the key to achieving financial security is in understanding the …

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An algorithm is a procedure where a finite set of instructions is used for solving a problem or performing a computation. Algorithms are widely used in most technologies today in industries ranging from healthcare, telecommunications, retail, and even in the world of finance. Some popular examples of algorithms include tracking a location using GPS, facial …

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The patent system was in fact designed to favour independent inventors, universities, R&D units, and disruptive startups and to protect their market position against bigger players. The patent system is not unfair to startup companies. However, startup companies need to make the most of the patent system in order to benefit from it. Bigger companies …

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Deep tech companies invent path-breaking technology to solve global problems. Technology is at the heart of these companies. Highly skilled engineers are key resources in a deep tech company, since they work on futuristic technology, solving problems that are yet to be solved and creating valuable Intellectual assets. Having worked with a few Venture Capital …

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What does “Your Strategy First® mean? Have you heard of the saying “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail“? In Abraham Maslow‘s The Psychology of Science, he says “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a …

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What is a Utility Model?  It is an intellectual property right to protect an invention like a patent. It is a faster substitute for patents. Sometimes a technical invention may not fulfill all the patentability requirements but may play an important part in a local innovation system. The simplest 6example is the cover of a …

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