Interpretation of Inventive Step: Private Monopoly vs Public Interest

The book is a unique work focused on the 'inventive step/non-obviousness', one of the criteria for qualifying an invention to be a patent with special reference to pharmaceutical sector. The interdisciplinary approach towards science and law will help lawyers, scientists, techno-legal researchers and academicians of various fields such as science, law, social sciences in understanding the legal, social and scientific perspective of interpretation of inventivestep/ non-obviousness. Thus, the Book is delved into the legal regimes of Europe and USA along with India vis-a-vis the requirement of inventive step. Further it discusses the challenges to the interpretation of inventive step and brings forth how the inventive step requirement strikes a balance between private monopoly and public interest and thereby fulfils the constitutional norms.