IDS Preparation

IDS: Why & When You Should File it?

An Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) lists all the prior-art claimed in a patent application. While filing a patent application, it is the responsibility of an applicant to disclose all the existing prior-art. If an applicant fails to enlist the prior-arts through IDS, the patent application will be rejected. The presence of prior-arts determines the patentability[…]