I'm Preparing for Patent Agent exam 2013, so can anyone please give me some useful tips for drafting the patent specification with special reference to claims and abstract.
Vaishnavi Narayanan (Associate) 05 March 2013
I'm Preparing for Patent Agent exam 2013, so can anyone please give me some useful tips for drafting the patent specification with special reference to claims and abstract.
carnation (student) 06 March 2013
you need to be first thorough with , patents act 1970.
go through the draft manual as well
Sy.patents (Freelance) 06 March 2013
Carnation: I doubt if the patent act and draft manual would help you for drafting paper, especially the claims part.
Vaishnavi: Drafting abstract should not be difficult, but drafting claims require basic understanding of claim structure and various rules. for example, single sentence, consistent terminology, proper use of verbs, antecedent basis, correct dependencies, indefiniteness etc.............above all, you will not be in a position to claim the invention properly unless you have clear understanding of the invention!!
I recommend you to read the following books (they are pretty costly):
Invention analysis and claiming
Faber on Mechanics of claim drafting from PLI
In some of my earlier posts I suggested few approaches on drafting. Please have a look at them.....hope you might benefit.
All the best~!!!!
Vaishnavi Narayanan (Associate) 08 March 2013
Thank you for your suggestion
Vaishnavi Narayanan (Associate) 08 March 2013
Thank you for your valuable guidence, if you have any more tips for patent agent exam please help me with that.
carnation (student) 08 March 2013
u can join some crash courses goin on ...depending on your location
Adv k . mahesh (advocate) 08 March 2013
this site will be very useful for drafting the patent specification with special reference to claims and abstract
https://www.ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/manual/HTML%20AND%20PDF/Manual%20of%20Patent%20Office%20Practice%20and%20Procedure%20-%20html/Chapter%205.htm
what all you require will be in one site for preparation of patent exam
all the best