Patent

by Bunataa Tekena | Dec 3, 2018

A patent is a right that grants the owner exclusive rights to his or her inventions for a specific period of time. Actually it is a deal between the patent holder and the public.

For a patent to be registrable it must be:

Novel
Must have an inventive step
Industrially applicable

Why Patent registration is matter?

With registration, it gives the patents holder exclusive rights, provide form of protection for technological advances as well as enabling the owner of a patent to take legal actions to those who exploited an invention without proper authorization.

Life of Patent protection

It lasts for ten years and it is not renewable unlike Trademark. An extended enforce for Patent protection can be allowed but cannot exceed 20 years.

*For the time being, we work in accordance and operate under the UK Patent ordinance (cap 87).Till now 254 registered patent from foreign clients. The implementation of the Kiribati Patent Act (our own legislation) is also considered in the next proceeding and optimistically followed by national registrations.

Requirements for filing an Application for New Registration on Patents