Data Sources and Patent Family Overview Patent family Data Sources | Page 2

Patent family & Data Sources A patent is a set of exclusive rights given to creator/inventor to exclude others from making a duplicate copy of his/her findings viz. to exclude others from selling, making and using for limited time (usually 20 years). Patents can be granted in different countries, each having slightly different rules or legal formalities. Now if one wants to have legal protection over his invention in multiple countries, it would require him to file multiple patents for each country or region. It may cause duplication, to avoid this duplication, a concept of patent family was introduced to reduce multi-national results of one invention. Therefore, a group of patent documents that share same inventive concepts and technical details is known patent family. The basis of creation of patent families is the shared priority data so that all patent documents that are to be included in family are technically equivalent. Simple patent family Complex patent family National patent family Patent Family Extended patent family Domestic patent family Artificial patent family 1 | © Ingenious e-Brain Solution 2019. All rights reserved. | [email protected] | www.iebrain.com