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Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology
fundamentals of global law, practice, and strategy
'Patents for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology' is the established and highly-acclaimed introduction to patent law and practice, guiding the reader through the legal and procedural complexities of the British, European, Japanese and United States patent systems. It explains in detail the role of patent practitioners, both in private practice and in-house, in maximising the commercial potential of their company's or client's products.
The nature and origins of patent rights -- Historical developments -- Harmonization of patent law -- What can be patented -- Filing a patent application -- Obtaining a granted patent : patent cooperation treaty procedure -- Obtaining a granted patent : European patent office procedure -- Obtaining a granted patent : national procedures -- Maintaining a patent in force and extending the patent term -- Enforcing patent rights -- Invalidity and amendment of granted patents -- Chemical inventions -- Pharmaceutical inventions -- Biotechnological inventions -- Patenting of genes, plants, and animals -- The patent practitioner and his function -- Drafting the patent specification -- Drafting the claims -- Prosecution of the patent application to grant -- Inventorship, ownership, and compensation -- Commercial exploitation of patents -- How to catch the infringer and how not to be caught -- Patent aspects of licensing -- Patents and competition law : United Kingdom and European Union -- Patents and competition law : United States.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010