We started out with three each of three different types of plants: one member of each set was given water that had been boiled on a gas stove, water that had been boiled in a microwave oven, or water that had not been boiled at all.
Drug patent protection: How long is long enough? A recent Senate committee hearing on Bill S-17, Parliament's effort to comply with international trade rules by extending pharmaceutical patent protection to 20 years, inadvertently opened the door to a broader investigation of the inner workings of the country's pharmaceutical patent legislation.
According to Section 2(j) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 an invention means a new product or process involving an inventive step and capable of industrial application., such invention protected under the patent law refers to patented. The following criteria determine what can be patented in India: 1. Patentable subject matter: The foremost consideration is to determine whether the invention relates to a patentable subject-matter. Sections 3 and 4 of the Patents Act list out non-patentable subject matter.