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What happens if your patent is rejected?

Patent Trademark Blog

Will your patent be rejected? Yes for utility, and probably not for design. Here are statistics on whether your patent will be rejected. A nonprovisional utility patent application has a roughly 90% probability of at least one rejection. A design patent application has an approximately 86% chance of approval.

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Schemes, Policies And Programmes For Patent Facilitation

IIPRD

Some of these schemes and programs work with the assistance of professional IP practitioners who are empaneled in respective departments, programs, or schemes while others provide monetary assistance to start-ups, inventors, institutions, etc. Scheme for Facilitating Start-Ups Intellectual Property Protection.