Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology : fundamentals of global law, practice, and strategy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grubb, Philip W.
Other Authors: Thomsen, Peter R., Wright, Gordon, Hoxie, Thomas
Format: Printed Book
Published: UK, OUP, 2016.
Edition:Sixth edition /
Subjects:
Patent laws and legislation > Great Britain.
Patent laws and legislation > United States.
Patent laws and legislation > European Union countries.
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Drugs
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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