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 the best way the inventor knows. Thus, the patent system rewards only those inventors who are willing to share with the whole world by granting them exclusive ownership of their innovation. 

But complex technical and scientific issues means complex intellectual property (IP) issues. This especially is the case with nanotechnologies, which are not easy to classify (see: Nanotechnology and intellectual property issues). Taking the example of bionanotechnology and nanomedicine, the chapter “Patenting Inventions in Bionanotechnology: A Guide for Scientists and Lawyers” in the recent book Bionanotechnology: Global Prospects discusses the importance of securing valid and defensible patent protection for any player interested in bionanotechnology commercialization.   Read the full article