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100			_aMercado, Aster.
245			_aGuidelines and procedures for patent application /
300			_ap.173-190
490			_aVol. 18 No. 2 Second Sem 1991
520			_aThis paper reviewed the essentials for patent application with emphasis on current developments in the patenting microorganisms. The Philippines current patenting system covers inventions, industrial designs, utility models and grants patents based on the first-to-invent rule. There are three statutory requisites of patentability: novelty, inventiveness, and usefulness or industrial applicability. The first requisite demands that all claims for patents be new. Claims for patents are also examined for their inventiveness by comparing them with the current state of the art. The distinctiveness of microorganism is judged based on (a) their microbiological properties as well as other properties, and (b) the technical effect they have brought about. Lastly, industrial applicability as a criterion requires that the process of the product be repeatable and that the product itself be reproducible on an industrial scale
650			_aPatent law
650			_aPatents - Guidelines
650			_aPIDS JPD 1991
773			_w0115-9143 _tJournal of Philippine Development
856			_uhttp://dirp3.pids.gov.ph/ris/pjd/pidsjpd91-2patent.pdf
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