Saturday, January 6, 2007

BASICS OF PATENT LAW INDIA

BASICS OF PATENT LAW INDIA by Kaviraj Singh

BASICS OF PATENT LAW INDIA

Patent law has been formulated with an objective to promote and protect the inventions and methods. The object of granting a patent is to encourage and develop science, technology and industry.

A patent can be defined as a grant of exclusive rights to an inventor over his invention for a limited period of time. The exclusive rights conferred include the right to make, use, exercise, sell or distribute the invention in India. The term of a patent is twenty years, after the expiry of which, the invention would fall into the public domain.



About the Author
Kaviraj Singh, Attorney of Trustman & Co- A law Firm at Delhi India http://www.trustman.org, http://delhilaw.firm.in

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