product patent

The company reports that it holds more than 250 product patents and 40 trademarks.

For example, we considered patent protection insurance, as we held several product patents, but decided against it.

All Western countries grant "product patents" on new inventions.

The 1994 agreement recognizes that there are circumstances under which product patents can be voided.

The application was processed in 2005 once the law in India allowed for product patents.

An important provision in the 1970 law recognized "process patents" rather than "product patents."

Also under that agreement, a product patent system will replace the current process patent system in India.

India's government, therefore, is justified in having "process patents" instead of "product patents" for its pharmaceutical industry.

While the W.T.O. requires its members to respect product patents, it allows them to put public health first.

It filed the Conover application for a process and product patent on tetracycline in October 1952.

Also, the product patent for Ceclor, a big-selling antibiotic, expired in December.

However, after gaining independence in 1947, there was a growing consensus that to boost manufacturing restrictive product patents must be temporarily removed.

More urgent, however, is a looming deadline for the country to recognize international product patents granted after 1995, to comply with World Trade Organization requirements.

Drugs are already covered by a satisfactory system through the product patent and agricultural products are covered by the plant breeding laws.

Textured vegetable protein was patented in three parts; a process patent, a product patent and a use patent.

Consequently, in 1999 India allowed for transitional filing of product patent for grant of exclusive marketing rights with retrospective effect from 1995.

Univis, the owner of various method and product patents on optical lenses, manufactured lens blanks and sold them to licensees.

In 1970, amendments to the Indian Patents Act abolished product patents but retained process patents with a reduced span of protection.

It is a question of using medicinal products rationally and exploiting the price potential of medicines in official drug substitution systems after medicinal product patents expire.

The first and most significant change was the January 1, 2005 enactment of an amendment to India's patent law that reinstated product patents for the first time since 1972.

With 387 acres of plants and an active R&D group, Kangtai holds 18 product patents and is seeking another 12 in a variety of product categories.

As a result, Dr. Minieri received the process patent on tetracycline, while Dr. Conover received the product patent.

One may attempt to measure the difference in price of an "improved" product patent, or compare with the price of the product in markets where (or when) it were not patented.

In a full memorandum of understanding signed on Jan. 17 China agreed to provide protection for US inventions and copyrighted works, including computer software, product patents, sound recordings and trade secrets.

The doctrine of inherency revolves around the question of novelty and arises when an inventor tries to obtain a product patent for a product that had been unintentionally invented earlier ("accidental anticipation").