Preliminary checks

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It is important to check the following 2 steps.

Step 1: Check the state of the art and keep your invention a secret

In order to qualify for protection, your invention must be novel. One of the preliminary steps before filing a patent application is therefore to review the state of the art in the technical field concerned for Monegasque, European and international patents issued in the last twenty years.

Step 2: Check that the invention is patentable

In order to obtain a patent in the Principality, in addition to being novel, your invention must provide a technical solution to a technical problem.