A patent protects the application of an idea. If an inventor creates a new, non obvious and useful machine, chemical, or process; or a new and non obvious design or plant; and gets a patent, others are excluded from exploiting the invention for a period of prescribed time. The inventor can en cash the profit from the invention. Patents are granted for useful items and processes, such as drugs, machines, and new compositions of material.

WHAT INVENTIONS ARE PATENTABLE :-No patent will be granted in respect of an invention relating to atomic energy falling under the Atomic Energy Act, 1962.Invention, in respect of which only methods or process for manufacture are patentable are as follows :

In the case of invention –

(a) claiming substances intended for use or capable of being used, as food or as medicine or drug; or

(b) relating to substances prepared or produced by chemical process (including alloys, optical glass, semiconductors and inter-metallic compounds), no patent shall be granted in respect of claims for the substances themselves, but claims for the methods or processes of manufacture shall be patentable. It may be noted that the said claims should relate to a single method of process of manufacture.

Mr. Nehal M. Raval

RAVAL & CO.

Proprietor, RAVAL & CO.
Ahmedabad, India

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