The issue of the patenting of life forms heated up after the US Supreme Court decision in Diaond v. Chakraborty to grant patent protection to micro-organisms. This paved the way for more patenting activities in the field of biotechnology. The advancement in this area of technology has implications mainly in the agricultural and health sector.
Although biotechnology has improved the human life to a great extent, it has many inherent disadvantages also.
The patenting of life forms raises a few serious legal issues because of its inherent complexities and techni calities.
The laws of various countries are not the same regarding micro organism as an invention. On the other hand, the approved laws and regulations could not be regarded as a legal statue of a state, because jurisprudences and doctrine and even the manner of dealings of Patent Offices along with the Patent Acts are showing the legal statutes of a state. Besides these and Conventions and Agreements, affects on national laws; therefore it is very important to study the patentability and legal protection of biotechnology inventions and products, as well as to the study the special national and international patent systems for the biotechnological inventions.
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