Rights of Patentee

Suppose your team patents a low-cost water purifier. A factory in Vapi starts copying it. A government hospital wants to buy a hundred units from another maker. A college lab wants to test it for a research paper. Which of these can you stop? The answer is not simply all of them. A patent gives a strong right to exclude, but the Act fences it with conditions, exceptions and duties. Knowing where the fence lies is the core of this topic.

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A patent confers on the patentee the exclusive right to prevent third parties, without consent, from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the patented product, or from using the patented process and dealing in its direct product (s.48), subject to the conditions in s.47 and to duties of working and restraint.

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