**2.1 Patent**

Patent—an exclusive right given for an invention(s), which may be a product or a process. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application. This right is provided for 20 years to the inventions which prove novelty, inventive step, and industrial application.

There are inventions which are non-patentable which are well described (*u/s* 3 a of Indian Patent Act 1970) [2]:


Copyright and related rights

*Intellectual Property Rights - Patent*

**2.1 Patent**

**80**

**Figure 1.**

of Indian Patent Act 1970) [2]:

properties of components

• Contrary to law/morality or injurious to health

• A method of agriculture or surgical entity

• Anything frivolous

*Kinds of intellectual property rights.*

Literary works—novels, poems and plays; films, music, art works (e.g., drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures) and architectural design.

It also includes performances, recordings, and broadcastings

Patent—an exclusive right given for an invention(s), which may be a product or

There are inventions which are non-patentable which are well described (*u/s* 3 a

a process. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application. This right is provided for 20 years to the inventions which prove novelty, inventive step, and industrial application.

• A mere discovery of scientific principles, formulations, theories, etc.

• A mere arrangement/rearrangement/duplication of known devices

• Substance obtained with mere admixture resulting only in aggregation of

• A mere discovery of a new property of a known substance

