Patent Laws of United States and Pakistan: A Comparative Discourse

Abstract

The questions relating to the provisions upon whom the patent is granted rotate around the following five concepts:Patentable subject matter, Inventive step or non-obviousness, Novelty Capable of Industrial application and Utility. In this research, the United States substantive provisions (US) and Pakistan Patent Laws are compared to identifying and examining the disharmonies and diversities in these countries substantive patent laws in the light of the research question. Whether there are diversities in the US and Pakistan’s substantive patent laws, and the disharmonies in the US, and Pakistan. For this purpose, this article is divided into five parts.