U.S. patent law permits a patent to be granted only for inventions that are useful, new, and non-obvious. Mr. Jaidka, the first Indian individual to get an American patent for his invention which transmits smells, aromas and perfumes using digital signals through the Internet and via cables to television sets, alleged that the NRDC has not been serious in marketing his technology OF American patent research development.
Patent license agreements are based on two bodies of law -- the law of contracts, which enforces the promises of people, and the law of torts, which enforces the reasonable conduct of people.
Patent regime that threatens to control the rich heritage of traditional knowledge and under-acknowledged contemporary innovations, there is a spurt of initiatives to tap this vast pool of informal knowledge.
The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) is a 16,000 member, national bar association constituted primarily of intellectual property lawyers in private & corporate practice, in government service, and in the academic community.
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), the National Innovation Foundation (NIF), the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Technology Information Foreca sting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) are the key institutions that have programme and schemes to assist individual innovators of American patent research development.
Within the confines of the science and technology bureaucracy, these programmers promise to award the innovator protection of the intellectual property through patenting.