Indian Patent Office Databases

Indian patent office provides the online patent searching.
·         Public Search for granted Patents: provides the patent no. search and provides full text of Indian Patents. This search has been categorized in following sections:

§   Public Search for Patents (No. 1 – 80000)

§   Public Search for Patents (No. 80001 to 1,53,697)

§   Public Search for Patents (No.1,53,698 [...]

Key patent strategies for nanotechnology inventors

A very useful article has been published by Nanowerk Spotlight on patent strategies for nanotechnology inventors.  Following are the excerpts from the article
 At its simplest, a country’s patent system provides for the disclosure of information about inventions. To obtain a patent, an inventor must ‘teach’ the public how to make and use the invention in [...]