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Patent Application: How to Get it Right
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Patent application, written in the correct format, increased your chances of getting yourself a patent. Your patent application needs to begin with a description of your invention, product or process, and you need to specify in the patent application how it differs from previous patents. The description of your product or process in your patent application should begin with a brief summary, and then you must provide details.
The clearer and simpler your description is, the more are the chances of your patent application passing. You can also take help from professional writers who specialize at writing patent applications, and you can also refer to photographs or drawing to explain your invention or process. Looking at sample patent applications can also help you get a better idea on how to raft your own.

Apple’s November 2009 Patent Application possibly for the 7th Generation iPod Nano
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Speculations are rife about the inclusion of camera, games and a unique situation sensitive screen in the 7th Generation iPod Nano according to Apple Inc's November 2009 patent application, which was recently discovered and reported by Patently Apple.

The images filed along with the patent application indicates at a device very much like the current iPod Nano equipped with camera input and environmental sensors which would allow the device to capture ecological characteristics such as sound, temperature, motion and make use of this information to create screen savers in sync with surroundings. The current 6th Generation iPod Nano is devoid of all the above the above mentioned features.

As reported by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, this patent application has been termed as"Environment Sensitive Display Tags" & is credited to Duncan Kerr, Nicholas King & Michael B Victor.

International Patent Filing Increased in 2010
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International patent filings under WIPO's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) saw an increase of 4.8 percent last year.

A strong growth was noticed in China (56.2%), the Republic of Korea saw a growth of 20.5 percent in patent filings and Japan saw a 7 percent growth for the same. European countries had quite a mixed performance, though the United States saw a decline in patent filing (-1.7%). Data reveals that 162,900 international patent applications were filed in 2010 as compared to the 155,398 patent applications in 2009.

However, the United States still remains the largest user of the PCT system with 44,855 international patent applications, Japan follows with 32,156 filed patent applications. Germany is in the third position with 17,171 patent applications.

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