Question

List the rights of a patentee under the indian patents act, 1970.

Answer 1

Explanation:

"capable of industrial application", in relation to an invention, means that the

invention is capable of being made or used in an industry;

(b) "Controller" means the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks

referred to in section 73;

(c) "convention application" means an application for a patent made by virtue of

section 135;

(d) "convention country" means a country or a country which is member of a group of

countries or a union of countries or an Intergovernmental organization referred to as

a convention country in section 133;

(e) "district court" has the meaning assigned to that expression by the Code of Civil

Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908);

(f) “exclusive licence” means a licence from a patentee which confers on the licensee,

on the licensee and persons authorised by him, to the exclusion of all other persons

(including the patentee), any right in respect of the patented invention, and

exclusive licensee shall be construed accordingly.

(g) Omitted by the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005

(h) "Government undertaking" means any industrial undertaking carried on—

(i) by a department of the Government, or

(ii) by a corporation established by a Central, Provincial or State Act, which is

owned or controlled by the Government, or

(iii) by a Government company as defined in section 617 of the Companies

Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), or

(iv) by an institution wholly or substantially financed by the Government;

(i) "High Court", in relation to a State or Union territory, means the High Court having

territorial jurisdiction in that State or Union territory, as the case may be;

(ia) "international application" means an application for patent made in accordance with

the Patent Cooperation Treaty;

(j)"invention" means a new product or process involving an inventive step and capable

of industrial application;

(ja) "inventive step" means a feature of an invention that involves technical advance as

compared to the existing knowledge or having economic significance or both and that

makes the invention not obvious to a person skilled in the art