Patents & Trademarks – Patents

A patent gives you exclusive rights to your invention for a limited time. It covers how things work, what they do, how they do it, what they’re made of and how they are made.
A patent gives you the right to prevent others from copying or selling your invention without permission.
You only have exclusive rights within the registered country and will therefore only prevent parties within the same country from copying or selling the invention. Singapore swift codes – Singapore bic bank codes
The rights also prevent parties within the same country from importing similar inventions from overseas.

How long a patent lasts

A patent can last up to 20 years from the day you register it.
After the first four years of registration you must renew the registration each year.
If you fail to renew the registration, the invention is free to be used by other parties.

Your invention must be new
Your invention must have an inventive step that is not obvious to someone with knowledge and experience in the subject
Your invention must be feasibly manufactured and used in industry.

House appli ance manufacturer Dyson invented a revolutionary way to prevent vacuum cleaners from losing suction power.
The invention was the introduction of a cyclone effect within the vacuum cleaner, which replaced the need for a dust bag (the main reason why vacuums lost suction power).
After patenting the invention, Dyson went on to create the technology Dual Cyclone™ in 1993 and the Root Cyclone™ in 2002.
Hoover, Dyson’s closest competitor, introduced the Vortex bagless vacuum cleaner that used the same cyclone technology
The infringement of the patent cost Hoover £4 million in damages after a three-year court battle that ended in 2000.