Without access to proper patent drafting, it is difficult for the Kenyan patent office to find applications that are suitable for granting as patents, and the ability of local inventors to obtain patents is severely diminished.
Instead, the lack of patents is due to a lack of patent expertise in the private sector, and a lack of funds available to hire expensive patent drafting services from firms in Europe, South Africa, or India.
They reveal major differences across countries in patent drafting styles, especially between Civil and Common Law countries, the latter being characterized by much larger patents.
These courses (nine in total) range from basic law and the essentials of Australian patent and trademark legislation to international patent law and more applied subjects such as patent drafting.
If you are not skilled at drawing, you may hire a patent drafts person to prepare the drawings.
If you are not a skilled artist, you can usually hire a patent drafts person to prepare these drawings for around $75 to $150 per drawing sheet.
"I've seen many patents drafted by attorneys, and once they got into litigation, I saw that the inventor was not involved in the drafting process, and that caused problems down the road," he explained.
"Chapter 2: Genesis and evolution of the patent system" (draft).
Vane's stance can be seen in the way the first Rhode Island patent was drafted in 1643, when he sat on the Parliamentary committee charged with colonial affairs.
Together, they began to draft patent applications for a data storage and retrieval system.
