[LLAW] Module 3: Patents in Business

Patent

A temporary monopoly granted to an inventor by the government in return for disclosing an invention; territorial

Patentable Invention

Any technical solution of a problem in any field of human activity which is new, involves an inventive step, and is industrially applicable. It may be, or may relate to, a product, or process, or an improvement of any of the foregoing,

Discoveries, Scientific theories, Mathematical methods

Non-patentable Inventions

Novelty, Inventive Step, Industrial Applicability

Requisites of Patentability

Novelty

It must be new

Prior Art

Defined as everything made available to the public anywhere in the world before the filing date or priority date of the application

Obvious

This term is used as equivalent to the ezxpression “lacking an inventive step.” Something is obvious if it does not go beyond the normal progress of technology but merely follows plainly or logically from the prior art.

Industrial Applicability

An invention that can be produced and used in any industry shall be industrially applicable

Industrial Applicability

It should have practical and real-life benefits in any field of huan endeavor

Person skilled in the art

• Fictional person with no inventive ability

• Aware of common general knowledge in the specific art

• Has access to everything disclosed as the state of the art

• Can observe developments in the related technical field

Commission Inventions

If the invention was commissioned, the person who commissioned the work sha