Mechanical Patents Practice
The Indian Patent Act allows patents for inventions in the engineering field and during the last 40 years most patents granted in India were in this area. Robust patent activity continues in the post 2005 regime as well.
Under the Indian Law as software is protected under copyrights, the same does not provide patent protection for software per se. However, the hardware embedded with software is a patentable product.
Our patent agents have decades of experience in the protection, management, and enforcement of a vast array of mechanical and electromechanical products. Our patent agents and attorneys gained unique ringside view of patenting of mechanical inventions background including experience as Examiners in this area in the Indian Patent Office. Our experience in this field includes, but is not limited to – medical and surgical devices, turbines and engines, earth moving equipments, construction equipments, consumer durables, automobiles and auto parts, agricultural equipment, food processing devices, bio-mechanical devices, hand tools, transportation lighting fixtures, design of power plants and other mechanical products.
- Patent filing and prosecution
- Opinions on validity, enforceability, and infringement
- Patent infringement litigation
- Patent portfolio management
- Patent licensing and other technology or know-how transfer
