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

1. The nature and origins of patent rights; 2. Historical developments; 3. Harmonization of patent law; 4. What can be patented; 5. Filing a patent application; 6. Obtaining a granted patent: patent cooperation treaty procedure; 7. Obtaining a granted patent: European patent office procedure; 8. Obtaining a granted patent: national procedures; 9. Maintaining a patent in force and extending the patent term; 10. Enforcing patent rights; 11. Invalidity and amendment of granted patents; 12. Chemical inventions; 13. Pharmaceutical inventions; 14. Biotechnological inventions; 15. Patenting of genes, plants, and animals; 16. Software-related and business method inventions; 17. The patent practitioner and his functions; 18. Drafting the patent specification; 19. Drafting the claims; 20. Prosecution of the patent application to grant; 21. Inventorship, ownership, and compensation; 22. 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.