The exclusion from Patentable Subject Matter for India Patent Office are:
1. Inventions which are frivolous or obviously contrary to well established natural law. 2. Inventions use or commercial exploitation of which is contrary to law or morality or causes serious prejudice to human, animal, or plant life or health or to the environment. 3. Discoveries of a scientific principle or formulation of an abstract theory or discovery of any living thing or non- living substance...
Prior art definition: Top Countries
United States of America
1. An invention which was known or used
by others in US, or patented or described in a printed publication in US
or a foreign country, before the invention by the applicant;
2. An
invention which was patented or described in a printed publication in US
or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in US, more than one
year before the filing date;
3. An invention abandoned by the applicant;
4.
An invention which was patented, or was...
Are patent text and images Copyrighted?
There is a debate over this topic that text and images of patent are subject of copyright protection. I have researched over this and found out that the answer to this debate is no.
Copyright: Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of "original
works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic,
and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished.
The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the
exclusive...
Non Patent Databases (free)
There are lots of commercial Non patent Literature databases available in the market but for the smaller companies doing the searching related to patents its tough to buy these databases as they are already have paid a lot for the patent databases like Micropatent, Thomson Innovation, QPat, Delphion, WIPS Global, Derwent and others.
They need some good and reliable Non Pantent Databases that can compliment their search and also are free. So some of the sources i liked most...
Comparison of/between patent databases
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