Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology : fundamentals of global law, practice, and strategy / by Philip W. Grubb.

1.The Nature and Origins of Patent Rights; 2. Historical Developments in Industrialized Countries; 3. Patents in Developing Countries; 4. What can be Patented; 5. Filing a Patent Application; 6. Obtaining a Granted Patent-National Procedures; 7. Obtaining a Granted Patent-EPO and PCT Procedures; 8. Maintaining a Patent in Force and Extending the Patent Term; 9. Enforcing Patent Rights; 10. Invalidity and Amendment of Granted Patents; 11. Chemical Inventions; 12. Pharmaceutical Inventions; 13. Biotechnological Inventions; 14. Patenting of Genes, Plants, and Animals; 15. Software-Related Inventions; 16. The Patent Practitioner and His Functions; 17. Drafting the Patent Specification; 18. Drafting the Claims; 19. Prosecution of the Patent Application to Grant; 20. Patents and Information; 21. Inventorship, Ownership, and Compensation; 22. The Commercial Exploitation of Patents; 23. How to Catch the Infringer-and how not to be Caught; 24. Patent Aspects of Licensing; 25. Patents and Competition Law.