Ghosts of inventions: Patent law’s digital mediations

Indian Patent Law On Biotechnological Inventions

APBN • Vol. 4 • No. 4 • 2000 79 Provisions of the Patents Act, 1970 Unlike the patent laws of most developed and even some developing countries, the current patent law in India, viz. the Patents Act, 1970, does not explicitly exclude or include any biological matter. For instance, the European Patent Convention explicitly excludes the patenting of plant and animal varieties and essentially biol...

A Case for Expansive Patent Protection of Biotechnology Inventions

Patent law protection of inventions in medicine and pharmaceutical industry.

Simply saying, inventions represent new solutions to technical problems. The word “technique” means “restraining of natural forces and controlled use of natural phenomena” , that is “human activity in the field of material phenomena characterized by space, time, matter and energy” . Thus, the technique is, actually, human activity to master and control nature. Once the domain of technique was c...

A Detailed Study of Patent System for Protection of Inventions

Creations of brain are called intellect. Since these creations have good commercial value, are called as property. Inventions are intellectual property and can be protected by patents provided the invention is novel, non-obvious, useful and enabled. To have fare trade among member countries, World Trade Organisation proposed TRIPS agreement. India had taken necessary initiation by signing the W...

New Rules of the European Patent Office for Biotechnological Inventions

The European Patent Organization not being a EU member state is not subject to this formal requirement of implementing the Directive. It is, however, highly desirable to have a common standard throughout Europe regarding the patenting of biotechnological inventions. The European Patent Organization recently decided to implement the rules of the Directive into the Implementing Regulations to the...