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A Patent Is An Exclusive Right Granted By The Government To An Inventor In Exchange Of The Disclosure Of His Invention To The World For A Limited Period Of Time. The Patent Protection Grants A Right Of Excluding Others, From Making, Using, Selling, Importing The Patented Product Or Process For Producing That Product For Those Purposes Without His Consent.
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A patent protection gives a patentee an exclusive right over the protected invention for making, using, selling, importing the patented invention. This right also excludes any other person from making, using, selling, offering to sell, importing the patented invention without the consent of the patentee. The patentee can license or sell his/her invention to someone else.
An invention must meet the following criteria to become patentable subject matter:
i) It should be novel.
ii) It should have inventive step or it must be non-obvious.
iii) It should be capable of Industrial application.
iv) It should not fall within the provisions of section 3 and 4 of the Patents Act 1970.
i) It should be novel.
ii) It should have inventive step or it must be non-obvious.
iii) It should be capable of Industrial application.
iv) It should not fall within the provisions of section 3 and 4 of the Patents Act 1970.
No. Software itself is not patentable under the Indian Patent Office under section 3(l)