Patent Law

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Description
This fourth edition of Patent Law comes seven years after the third edition. During the last seven years the Patents Act was amended three times. The first amendment took place in 1999 which introduced the concept of Exclusive Marketing Rights. Thereafter the Patents (Amendment) Act 2002 was passed which came into force on 20th May 2003 (Act No. 38 of 2002). Finally the Patents (Amendment) Act 2005 (Act No. 15 of 2005) was passed which came into force on 1st January 2005. The Patents Rules 2003 which was passed consequent to Patents (Amendment) Act 2002 was amended by Patents (Amendment) Rules 2005 which came into force on 1st January 2005.
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Contents
Chapter 1.    Introduction
Chapter 2.    Patentable Inventions
Chapter 3.    How to Obtain a Patent
Chapter 4.    Patents of Addition
Chapter 5.    Specification
Chapter 6.    Amendment of Applications and Specifications
Chapter 7.    Opposition to Grant of Patent and Patent Granted
Chapter 8.    Grounds of Opposition
Chapter 9.    Register of Patents
Chapter 10.  Patent Office, Powers of Controller & Central Government and Appeals
Chapter 11.  Rights and Obligations of a Patentee
Chapter 12.  Transfer of Patent Rights
Chapter 13.  Use of Inventions for Purposes of Government and Acquisition of
                        Invention by Central Government
Chapter 14.  Working of Patents Compulsory Licences and Revocation
Chapter 15.  Revocation and Surrender of Patents
Chapter 16.  Grounds of Revocation of a Patent
Chapter 17.  Infringement of Patents
Chapter 18.  Action for Infringement
Chapter 19.  Threat of Infringement Proceedings
Chapter 20.  Miscellaneous Matters
Chapter 21.  Patenting of Certain Special Categories of subject-matter
Chapter 22.  Trade Secrets
Chapter 23.  Right of Publicity
Appendices
1.    The Patents Act 1970
2.    The Patents Rules, 2003
3.    The Draft Rules
4.    Territorial Limits of the Patent Office
5.    The Atomic Energy Act
6.    Rules of the High Courts under the Patents Act 1970
7.    Notification Regarding Enforcement of Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002
8.    Notification Regarding Countries, Group or Union of Countries or Inter-
       Governmental Organisations as Convention Countries
9.    Notification Regarding Authorised Depository Institutions
10.  Notifications by Central Government
11.  The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (Salaries and Allowances Payable To,
       and Other Terms and Conditions of Service of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and
       Members) Rules, 2003
12.  Intellectual Property Appellate Board ( Patents Procedure) Rules, 2010
13.  Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
14.  Patent Co-operation Treaty
15.  United Kingdom Statute-The Patents Act 1977 (UK)
Index
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Author Details
P. Narayanan, M.A., LLB, Advocate
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