Do We Need a Special Patent Law for Biological Inventions?
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Biotechnology
سال: 1984
ISSN: 1087-0156,1546-1696
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0284-192