Unlike the requirements of the Andean Community or under the European Patent Convention, under the United States system Patents shall be granted for inventions, designs or plants whose subject matter is susceptible to be patentable, are new and fulfill the requirement of non-obviousness. Patentable Subject Matter: Whoever invents or discovers any: New and useful process, Machine, Manufacture or more…
Pretty much as in the Andean Community Regime, under the European Patent Convention Patents shall be granted for any inventions, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application. The differences, however, rely on the way that each of those systems define and limit the different more…
Under the Andean Community Provisions, Patents shall be granted for inventions (goods or processes), provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are industrially applicable. Novelty: Dec. No. 486 establishes that an invention shall be considered new when it is not included in the state of the art. For Dec. 486, “state of art“ comprises everything that has been more…
