Biotechnology And Chemical Patent Practice In Canada

Focuses on: Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, the United States, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

The advent of modern biotechnology has seen the proliferation of the use of life forms for the creation of products. In tandem with this development, patent over life forms have grown proportionately as the biotechnology industry seeks to protect its investment. This has spawned a debate about the propriety of patenting life forms. This book explores the issues surrounding such patenting. There is a need to identify the reasons for the growth of such patenting, the issues raised, the concerns dealing with such patenting and the way in which countries, especially leading patent countries have sought to resolve the competing views.

Revised edition of : Patents for chemists, c1982.

The Manual of Patent Office Practice (MOPOP) is a guide for patent examiners, applicants, agents and the public to the operational procedures and examination practices of the Canadian Patent Office. It includes information on Patent Office practices regarding the opening and inspection of applications; inquiries and information on pending applications; petitions and appointment of agents and representatives; filing and completion requirements; ownership; registration and joint inventors; requests for priority; abstracts; descriptions; drawings; claims; subject-matter and utility; examination of applications; unity of invention; anticipation, obviousness and double-patenting; computer-implemented inventions; biotechnology; protests and filings of prior art prior to grant; amendments to patent applications; withdrawal, abandonment, reinstatement, lapse and time limits; final actions and post-rejection practice; the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT); disclaimer, re-exambination, reissue and corrections of clerical errors; maintenance fees; and tariff of fees.--Includes text from document.