Its kind of similar to FDA or MDR, but each country has its own regulatory body (SFDA for Saudi, MOHAP for UAE etc..). If the product already has FDA / MDA, it can be easily certified with those regulatory bodies. If not, the certification process is quite similar to FDA / MDA including adhering to IEC60601, ISO13485 and clinical validation

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from the sri lankan patent office. Its quite cheap to get a design patent. But, they are always under-staffed, so it may take a bit of time to get the patent. Currently, the location is in Maradana. You can download the application from their website, fill it and submit to them (through email or physically going there)

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there are a few companies doing it here, or you can do it from China. For China, go to Alibaba, there are enough suppliers there. For Sri Lankan suppliers, you can just google / google map search

As Sri Lankan patents are not shown publicly in google or any patent search engine (so sad that its the case), others can actually apply from other countries and may be get it granted. But as you have a priority date, you can apply in that other country and make their patent cancelled. Either way, as you have done the invention before, their invention is not NOVEL. Therefore, even after the time limit, they can't ideally patent it as a new invention.

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Can you please explain about this? In all my International patent applications, we selected what countries we are applying and paid for them. For all PCT countries, we can apply together, but still the payments should go to selected countries separately. That was my experience

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Extremely sorry, i am working really hard with my business and couldnt spend time on this. but i will try my best to start again

best thing is, if your invention is good, you can find investors. First, you can apply for a local patent, and secure your invention. Then you can talk to anyone and try to find funding. For good inventions, finding funding is not that hard. Inventions need a lot of money to take them to commercial selling stage, but there are so many people who can help you. Trying to own 100% of your invention and trying to do it yourself may be not the best idea.