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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999 Section 2

Amendment of Section 5

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Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999 Section 2 is part of Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999 - Amendment of Section 5. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

Section 5 of the Patents Act, 1970 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) shall be renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof and after sub-section (1) as so renumbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:

"(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a claim for patent of an invention for a substance itself intended for use, or capable of being used, as medicine or drug, except the medicine or drug specified under sub-clause (v) of clause (1) of sub-section (1) of section 2, may be made and shall be dealt, without prejudice to the other provisions of this Act, in the manner provided in Chapter IVA".

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What does Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999 Section 2 provide?

Section Section 2 of the Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999 (Amendment of Section 5) is reproduced on this page as part of the Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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