What is the Patent Office?

What is the Patent Office?

The Patent Office is the government agency that grants patents. There is usually one for each country, there's also a European patent office in Munich that grants European patents. The patent office will examine your patent application when you file it at the patent office and will take the decision as to whether they think that they can grant you a patent, because you meet the legal requirements. Very often, the patent office comes up with objections and that where your patent attorney comes in and is able to argue with the patent examiners and hopefully get you a patent even though there may have been some objections there.