Patent Examination

Patent examination is the process by which a government office reviews a submitted patent application to determine if the invention is new, useful, and non-obvious. Examiners analyze the application, search for existing inventions, and assess its compliance with legal requirements. If the application meets all criteria, a patent is granted, giving the inventor exclusive rights to the invention for a certain period. This process ensures that valuable innovations are protected while preventing the granting of patents for ideas that are already known or too similar to existing inventions.