How to apply for a patent? Preparation, execution, follow-up

You are the author of technical creations, or you are in charge of a company or department that produces technical creations.

Because of its complex legal and technical aspects, it is strongly recommended that you use the services of a professional patent attorney, either in-house or external to your company. The professional advisor may be an industrial property attorney or a specialist lawyer. An industrial property attorney is an engineer who is authorized to represent the inventor before the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and the European Patent Office (EPO). Their technical and legal training enables them to identify the protectable aspects of a creation, to analyze the legal feasibility of the filing operation in relation to what already exists, and to guide the drafting of the application for protection in the direction best suited to the applicant.

You want to know :

• how to start a patent application procedure, especially in France?

• what preliminary checks should be carried out?

• how will the procedure work and how long will it take?

• which stages will generate the greatest costs?