Patentable and Non-patentable inventions in India

Patentable:
A new product or process, involving an inventive step and capable of being made or used in an industry. It means the invention to be patentable should be technical in nature and should meet the following criteria -
i) Novelty : The matter disclosed in the specification is not published in India or elsewhere before the date of filing of the patent application in India.
ii) Inventive Step: The invention is not obvious to a person skilled in the art in the light of the prior publication/knowledge/ document.
iii) Industrially applicable: Invention should possess utility, so that it can be made or used in an
industry.
Non-patentable:
The following are Non-Patentable inventions within the meaning of the Act: -
(a) an invention which is frivolous or which claims anything obviously contrary to well established natural laws;
(b) an invention the primary or intended use or commercial exploitation of which could be contrary to public order or morality or which causes serious prejudice to human, animal or plant life or health or to the environment;
(c) the mere discovery of a scientific principle or the formulation of an abstract theory (or discovery of any living thing or non-living substances occurring in nature);
(d) the mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance or the mere discovery of any new property or mere new use for a known substance or of the mere use of a known process, machine or apparatus unless such known process results in a new product or employs at least one new reactant ;
Explanation- For the purposes of this clause, salts, esters, ethers, 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.
(e) 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;
(f) the mere arrangement or re-arrangement or duplication of known devices each functioning independently of one another in a known way;
(g) a method of agriculture or horticulture;
(h) any process for the medicinal, surgical, curative, prophylactic,diagnostic, therapeutic or other treatment of human beings or 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.
(i) 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;
(j) a mathematical or business method or a computer programme per se or algorithms;
(k) a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation whatsoever including cinematographic works and television productions;
(I) a mere scheme or rule or method of performing mental act or method of playing game;
(m) a presentation of information; (n) topography of integrated circuits;
(o) an invention which in effect, is traditional knowledge or which is an aggregation or duplication
of known properties of traditionally known component or components.
(p) Inventions relating to atomic energy and the inventions prejudicial to the interest of security of
India.
Reference

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Indian Patent Information

For the people who need to understand or go through the Indian patent law. Here is the site where you can get the total information. The information is monitored and updated by Indian patent office.

Click here-Indian Patent Information

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Skype launches new beta for feature phones

Skype announced a beta version of its client for Java-enabled mobile phones with the current list of compatible devices from Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung. The intent of this new mobile client is to expand Skype to the mass market feature phone.

While Skype is a VoIP solution that is extremely popular around the world, this current beta mobile implementation actually uses standard calls over carrier networks to make the actual call from your mobile phone. Most feature phones/mass market phones do not support WiFi or 3G networks in the U.S. so this is probably the best way to currently get the calls initiated. There are a few select countries where you can actually make calls via the Skype network directly in this current beta too, including Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The call is then routed through Skype’s network to the person you are calling and the only charges that will apply are your carrier minutes. When you initiate a call a pop-up appears to ask if you want to make the local call and my phones kept calling an 813 area code number. It still does use WiFi or 3G networks to maintain your presence and carry out chats so it is a rather seamless experience on your device.

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Understanding Search Engine Patents

Search related patents provide insight into what’s going on in search engine algorithms, and search marketers who understand these “rules of ranking” are better positioned to win top position in search results.

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Sand Fountain in Saudi Arabia

A fountain of sand erupted in the desert of saudi arabia and until today geologists don’t have a clue or an explanation to what is going on. Scientists say that this will bring out some minerals and metals that we have never seen or encountered before..

Suddently, a 9-meter fountain (geyser) apparead, in the Al-Ahsae City, Eastern Saudi Arabia.
Immediately, Armaco geological teams and scientists hurry to deal with this strange phenomenon,
but they did not succeed in explaining what happened ! But they agreed on a theory (…)
that these are -what so called- burdens of the Earth.

Some scientists said this phenomenon will lead to apparency of new materials, which will change the humanity way of life …

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TCS Issued Patent

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. , a leading provider of mission-critical wireless communications, today announced the USPTO has issued patent number 7,355,990 for “Mobile-Originated. The invention relates to the communication between a mobile (i.e., wireless) device and an application server via a short message service center (SMSC) and the Internet.

Title: Mobile-originated to HTTP internet communications
Abstract: A mobile device-to-HTTP protocol gateway (MHG, or “MO Gateway”) which translates between Wireless Mobile Originated commands from an SMSC, and an application server on the Internet (i.e., a “web IP Server”). A wireless Internet gateway establishes communications with one or more relevant SMSCs using standard format SMPP commands, and the MHG utilizes HTTP protocol POST messages to post short messages originated at the mobile device to a particular URL. Return results are received by the MHG via HTTP protocol messages, translated to SMPP messages, and forwarded back to the SMSC for delivery to the mobile device. The wireless Internet Gateway communicates with the MHG using RMI protocol commands. An MHG in accordance with the principles of the present invention enables a developer to create mobile applications using standard web development tools, e.g., Java Servlets. The MHG allows standard format command messages to be used throughout the pathway between a mobile device and an application program on a web IP server at a particular URL.
Filed: April 25, 2005
Issued: April 8, 2008
Inventors: Smith; Richard A, Wilson; Johanna

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ADA-ES Awarded Patent for Enhancement of Mercury Control Equipment

USPTO issued ADA-ES a patent covering technology to improve the performance of activated carbon injection equipment for control of mercury emissions from coal-fired electrical generating units. The invention is directed generally to treatment of gases to remove controlled materials and specifically to the treatment of flue gases to remove mercury and other contaminants.

Patent #: 7361209
Title: Apparatus and process for preparing sorbents for mercury control at the point of use
Abstract: A system for treating a contaminated gas stream is provided that includes a comminution device 204 operable to effect size reduction of a plurality of sorbent particles and form a plurality of comminuted particles, a plurality of nozzles 224 distributed through the gas stream and operable to introduce the plurality of comminuted particles into the gas stream, and a particle removal device 104 operable to remove at least most of the introduced comminuted particles and form a treated gas stream. The comminution device is in direct fluid communication with the nozzles.
Assignee: ADA Environmental Solutions, LLC
Inventors: Durham; Michael D,  Martin; Cameron E
Filed: April 2, 2004
Issued: April 22, 2008

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Signalife Awarded New U.S. Patent, ‘System For, And Method Of, Monitoring Heartbeats Of A Patient’

USPTO has awarded Signalife, Inc. a new and important patent entitled “System For, And Method Of, Monitoring Heartbeats Of A Patient”. The patent, which covers 37 claims, will enhance the Company’s ability to develop new proprietary products.

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Orqis(R) Medical Awarded 15th U.S. Patent

Medical Corporation, a medical products company developing and marketing devices to improve cardiac performance through Aortic Flow Therapy, announced today that the USPTO has issued U.S. Patent number 7,331,921 (the ‘921 patent) entitled “Implantable Heart Assist System and Method of Applying Same.” The ‘921 patent which discloses and claims methods and apparatus for intravascular renal (kidney) perfusion is exclusively owned by Orqis and is the Company’s 15th U.S. Patent.

Patent #: US7331921
Title: Implantable heart assist system and method of applying same
Abstract: An extracardiac pumping for supplementing the circulation of blood, including the cardiac output, in a patient without any component thereof being connected to the patient’s heart, and methods of using same. One embodiment of the intravascular extracardiac system comprises a pump with inflow and outflow conduits that are sized and configured to be implantable intravascularly through a non-primary vessel, whereby it may positioned where desired within the patient’s vasculature. The system comprises a subcardiac pump that may be driven directly or electromagnetically from within or without the patient. The pump is configured to be operated continuously or in a pulsatile fashion, synchronous with the patient’s heart, thereby potentially reducing the afterload of the heart. In another embodiment, the system is positioned extracorporeally, with the inflow conduit and outflow conduit applied percutaneously to a non-primary vessel for circulating blood to and from the non-primary vessel or between the non-primary vessel and another blood vessel within the patient’s vasculature.
Assignee: Orqis Medical Corporation
Filed: June 28, 2004
Issued: February 19, 2008

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Invention relates to a method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual

Title: Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual
Patent #: US20070078663
Pub date: April 5, 2007
Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved method of proposing marriage to an individual. The method of proposing to an individual generally comprising the steps of meeting the individual; exchanging names with the individual; dating the individual (not necessary); drafting a government document having a proposal to marry the individual incorporated therein; and showing the government document to the individual. The government document may be a patent application. The patent application may claim the method by which the proposer will make a marriage proposal to the individual. The proposer could then use the method claimed in the patent application to propose to the individual. The patent application could be the actual marriage proposal.

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