Initially, the following questions should be answered by the inventor and his or her colleagues:
- What is the concept of the invention and how does it work? What is the essence of our invention?
- What is the technical problem being addressed?
- What approaches have been taken by others to solve the same or similar problem?
- Is the invention novel or does it have any novel features over the existing approaches?
- What is the technical effect of these features? How is the invention better?
- Am I in a position to commercialise the invention?
As part of the above, you should carry out some searches to get an idea of what is existing to the public.
This includes all disclosures, so general searching as well as patent searching should be carried out. Some useful links:
