subject which cannot be patent

1. By
Dr.N.Gopinathan
Assistant professor
Faculty of pharmacy
SRIHER DU
CHENNAI-INDIA

2. NON PATENTABLE SUBJECT MATTER
An invention may satisfy the
condition of novelty,
inventiveness and
usefulness but it may not
qualify for a patent.

3. Novelty

5. Usefulness

6. An invention which is frivolous
[carefree and superficial] or
which claims anything
obviously contrary to well
established natural laws;

7. Natural law

8. An invention the primary or
intended use or commercial
exploitation of which could be
contrary to public order or
morality

9. Commercial exploitation of wild life

10. An invention which causes
serious prejudice to human,
animal or plant life or health
or to the environment;

11. The mere discovery of a scientific
principle
The formulation of an abstract
theory
Discovery of any living thing or
non-living substances occurring in
nature;

12. A substance obtained by a mere
admixture resulting only in the
aggregation of the properties of
the components thereof or a
process for producing such
substance;

13. Clarifies that salts, esters, polymorphs,
metabolites, pure form, particle size,
isomers, mixtures of isomers, complexes,
combinations and other derivatives of
known substance shall be considered to be
the same substance, unless they differ
significantly in properties with regard to
efficacy.

14. Mere discovery of any property

15. Mere new use for
a known substance
Aspirin
Anticoagulant
Anticancer
[colon]

16. Mere use of a known process,
machine or apparatus unless
such known process results in a
new product

17. The mere arrangement or re-
arrangement or duplication of
known devices each functioning
independently of one another in
a known way;

18. omitted by Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002.

19. A method of agriculture or
horticulture;

20. • any process for the medicinal, surgical,
curative, prophylactic diagnostic,
therapeutic or other treatment of human
beings

21. Any process for a similar
treatment of animals to render
them free of disease or to
increase their economic value
or that of their products;

22. In a reaction employs at least one new reactant;

23. plants and animals in whole or any
part thereof other than micro-
organisms but including seeds,
varieties and species and essentially
biological processes for production or
propagation of plants and animals;

24. • a computer programme per se other than its
technical application to industry or a combination
with hardware;
• a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or
any other aesthetic creation whatsoever
including cinematographic works and television
productions;
• a mere scheme or rule or method of performing
mental act or method of playing game;

25. • a presentation of information;
• topography of integrated circuits;
• an invention which in effect, is traditional
knowledge or which is an aggregation or
duplication of known properties of
traditionally known component or
components.

26. • Section 4 prohibits the grant of patent in
respect of an invention relating to atomic
energy

27. “no patents shall be granted for inventions
which in the opinion of the Central Government
are useful for or relate to the production,
control, use or disposal of atomic energy or the
prospecting, mining, extraction, production,
physical and chemical treatment, fabrication,
enrichment, canning or use of any prescribed
substance or radioactive substance or the
ensuring of safety in atomic energy operations”.

28. • Thank you