Selection And Role Of The Patent Agent

Patent agents are professionally licensed practitioners who have the license to practice before the patent office of the country. The patent agent has a lot of responsibility when it comes to preparation of the document and filing the same before the patent office and also advising with regards to patentability. When it comes to assisting inventors with completing and submitting all patent-application paperwork, patent agents provide all those services efficiently. The role also extends to searching for prior art, writing the inventor's legally enforceable claims of ownership to the invention, revising rejected patent applications. The agents are also the subject matter expertise in their domain.