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Patent law and modern biotechnology : a comparitive study about the requirements and the scope of protection / E.S. van de Graaf.
1997
G 252 GRA.P
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Title
Patent law and modern biotechnology : a comparitive study about the requirements and the scope of protection / E.S. van de Graaf.
Description
xii, 447, XLVII pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN
9038705778
9789038705774
9789038705774
Alternate Call Number
G 252 GRA.P
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages i-xxv) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : 1. Scientific setting; 2. Problem; 3. Materials used; 4. Structure; 1. Technical aspects : Introduction; Characterisation of biotechnology : 2. Paradigma switch; 3. Basic natural processes; 4. Proteins; 5. RecDNA technology; 6. Use in state of the art techniques; 2. Economics of patent law : Introduction; 1. Firm level; 2. Supply of technical information; 3. Industry level; 4. Patents at macro economic level; 3. Patentable subject-matter : Introduction; A. EPC; 1. Invention; 2. Art. 53(a) EPC; 3. Art. 53(b) EPC; B. United States : Introduction; 1. Patentability of biological subject-matter till 1980; 2. Chakrabarty and Hibberd decisions; 3. Patentability after Chakrabarty and Hibberd; 4. Claims : Introduction; A. EPC : Introduction; 1. Claims; 2. Unity of invention; 3. Preliminary clarity of the claims; 4. Support by description; B. United States : Introduction; 1. Drafting of the claims; 2. Unity of claims; 3. Definiteness of claims; 5. Novelty : Introduction; A. EPC : Introduction; 1. Availability of state of the art; 2. Standard of anticipation; 3. Adequate prejudicial disclosure; 4. Priority; B. United States : Introduction; 1. Prior art - printed publication; 2. Strict identity; 3. Disclosure of reference; 4. Priority of inventor; 5. Priority of filing date; 6. Inventive step : Introduction; A. EPC : Introduction; 1. Art. 56 EPC; 2. Problem and solution approach; 3. State of the art - problem; 4. Person skilled in the art; 5. Prima facie obviousness; 6. Indicia; 7. Assessment of transferable prior art; 8. Assessment of proceeding to invention; 9. Decisions about secondary indicia; B. United States : Introduction; 1. State of the art; 2. Problem and solution; 3. Person skilled in the art; 4. Concept of prima facie obviousness; 5. Assessment of prima facie non-obviousness; 6. Assessment of prima facie obviousness; 7. Dichotomy obviousness making using processes; 8. Indicia; 7. Disclosure : Introduction; A. EPC : Introduction; 1. Industrial application; 2. Sufficiency of disclosure; B. United States : Introduction; 1. Utility; 2. Enablement; 3. Description; 4. Best mode; 8. Scope of protection : Introduction; A. EPC : Introduction; 1. Commercial scope of protection; 2. Meaning of Art. 69 EPC within EPC system; 3. Technical scope of protection Germany; 4. Technical scope of protection in the Netherlands; 5. Technical scope of protection in Switzerland; 6. Technical scope of protection in the United Kingdom; 7. Evaluation meaning Art. 69 EPC in practice; 8. Hypothetical protection for biotechnological inventions; B. United States : Introduction; 1. Direct infringement; 2. Literal infringement of claims; 3. Substantive infringement of claims; Conclusion : 1. Patentable subject-matter; 2. Claims; 3. Novelty; 4. Inventive step; 5. Disclosure; 6. Scope of protection;.
Series
Series
SI-EUR.
Published
[Rotterdam] : Sanders Instituut, 1997.
Language
English
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Added Corporate Author
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.