Substantive Requirements of Patentability in terms of Pharmaceuticals and Environmentally Sound Technologies : A Comparative Study

Abstract

   

The genesis of the present work comes from unclear, insufficient and vague patent laws that are there in the case of environmentally sound technologies. So, in the path of carving a set of proper rules and laws for them, pharmaceutical sector often tops the comparison debate. It will not obviously be a sound decision to pick the patent laws that pertain to drugs and apply them as it is to the EST sector as well. It is a long route to the destination and this paper forms a small part of that route. The principal objective of this paper is to understand what patentability means in terms of pharmaceuticals and ESTs and how are they similar or different from each other. Only when this paper decently achieves this objective, can the journey be continued of studying pharmaceutical patent laws and bringing them in use in the case of ESTs in the future works.