23/07/2018 Patent Drafting for Beginners - - Unit 3 - Week 1

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Unit 3 - Week 1

Course
outline Assignment 1
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed. Due on 2018-02-21, 23:59 IST.
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Week 0 1) What is the most important problem solved by a drinking straw? 1 point

Week 1

What are
Inventions?

Background

Field of
Invention

Prior Art

Patent
Classification

Technical
Advance

What are not

inventions

Why People
Invent

How Inventions
Look

Where to Look
for Inventions

How to Catch
an Invention

Getting a
working
disclosure

Searching with Holding the liquid in the container

the disclosure Preventing leakage of fluid
Outcome of A tube that helps avoid contact with beverage container
search Allowing the user to see the fluid
What is a
No, the answer is incorrect.
Patentability
Search Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Reasons for
Ordering a A tube that helps avoid contact with beverage container
Patentability
2) A prior art document will not cover— 1 point
Search

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When a References of Patents

Patentability
Scope of the Invention
Search is Not
Required Commercial value of the Invention
Non-Patent Literature
How to Order a
Patentability No, the answer is incorrect.
Search
Score: 0
Limits of Accepted Answers:
Patentability
Commercial value of the Invention
Search

Patentability 3) What can be patented under the Indian Law? 1 point

Search Report
Both Product and Process
How to pitch an
A Product
invention
A Process
Identifying the
None of the Above
inventive
concept No, the answer is incorrect.
Quiz : Score: 0
Assignment 1 Accepted Answers:
Week Both Product and Process
1:Feedback
4) Which of the following inventions can be patented as per Section 3 of the Patents Act, 1970? 1 point
Week 2
A device used for executing human beings
Week 3 A perpetual motion machine
A live human made micro-organism
Week 4 Isomers and salts of an earlier patented drug

DOWNLOAD No, the answer is incorrect.

VIDEOS Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Interaction A live human made micro-organism
Session
5) Which of the following is not an essential element of an ‘inventive step’ as per the Patent Act, 1 point
1970?

Technical advance
Economic significance
Social significance
Not obvious to person skilled in art

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Social significance

6) Statement 1 : An Invention should be conceived as a Physical embodiment 1 point

Statement 2: It is important to elevate the invention to the level of concept

Statement 1 is true, 2 is false

Statement 1 is false, 2 is true
Statement 1 and 2 both are false
Statement 1 and 2 both are true

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Statement 1 is false, 2 is true

7) Statement 1: Every complete specification shall end with a claim defining the scope of the 1 point
invention for which protection is claimed
Statement 2: The claims in a complete specification need not necessarily relate to single inventive
concept

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Statement 1 is true, 2 is false

Statement 1 is false, 2 is true
Statement 1 and 2 both are false
Statement 1 and 2 both are true

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Statement 1 is true, 2 is false

8) Which of the following is true with respect to perceiving an invention as concepts while 1 point
drafting a claim?

Explain the physical embodiment in the invention

Elevate the invention to the level of a concept
Explain the implementation details in the claim
Identify what is needed to solve the problem in the art

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Elevate the invention to the level of a concept
Identify what is needed to solve the problem in the art

9) Which of the following are the requirements of a disclosure? 1 point

Fully and particularly describe the invention

Fully and particularly describe its operation / use
Fully and particularly describe method of performance
Disclose the best method of performance – claim

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Fully and particularly describe the invention
Fully and particularly describe its operation / use
Fully and particularly describe method of performance
Disclose the best method of performance – claim

10)Identify the Priority date of the PCT application no. PCT/IN2005/000273 by doing a search 1 point
on google patents

11 Aug 2005
17 Nov 2004
26 May 2006
19 June 2004

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
17 Nov 2004

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