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Introduction
A. Framework and General Principles of Intellectual Property System
B. History of the Patent System
Reading:
Chapter 1 : Introduction, Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials , pp. 1-13, Robert
Merges & John F. Duffy, 5th edition (2011)
C. History and Development of the Philippine Patent System
D. Sources of Patent Law
1. 1987 Philippine Constitution
Article XII, Secs. 6, 14
Article XIV, Secs. 10 - 18
2. International Agreements
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of the Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS
Agreement)
Reading:
Introduction to the TRIPS Agreement, pp. 1-8, 10-14, 16-18, A Handbook on the WTO
TRIPS Agreement, Antony Taubman, Hannu Wager and Jayashree Watal (2012)
TRIPS Law and TRIPS Politics: Legal Clarity and Policy Flexibility, pp. 1-8, 10-14, 1618, A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement, Antony Taubman, Hannu Wager and
Jayashree Watal (2012)
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
Patent Cooperation Treaty
International Conventions and Reciprocity (Section 3, Republic Act No. 8293, IP Code of
the Philippines
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II. Patents
A. General Principles of Patents
B. Types of Patents
1. Invention (Sec. 21, IPC)
2. Utility Model (Section 109.1, IPC)
3. Industrial Design (Secs. 112, 113, 119.1, IPC)
4. Lay-Out Designs Republic Act 9150 (Topographies of Integrated Circuits RA 9150
amending RA 8293)
C. Term of Protection
Article 33, TRIPS Agreement (Invention)
Sec. 54, IP Code (Invention)
Section 109.3, IP Code (Utility Model)
Article 26.3, TRIPS Agreement (Industrial Design)
Section 118, IP Code
D. IP Code Provisions on Patents
1. Patentable Inventions (Section 21, IPC)
2. Purpose
Manzano vs. Court of Appeals, 278 SCRA 688
Pearl & Dean v. Shoemart, 409 SCRA 231 (2003)
Reading:
Report on the International Patent System, pp. 7 22, WIPO Standing Committee on the
Law of Patents 12th Session (2008) available http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/scpen/
scp_12_3.pdf
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The Nature and Function of the Patent System, Edmund Kitsch, The Journal of Law and
Economics, pp. 265 -291
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Article 3 (National Treatment), TRIPS Agreement
Article 4 (Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment), TRIPS Agreement
3. Non-Patentable Inventions
Section 22, IPC as amended by Republic Act 9502, Cheaper Medicines Act
Article 27, TRIPS Agreement
Republic Act No. 9168, Plant Variety Protection Act
Section 32 and 34 of the Indigenous Peoples Right Act
a. Discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods
OReilly v. Morse, U.S. 62 (1854)
The Telephone Cases, 126 U.S. 1 (1888)
b. Living Things
Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303
i)
Reading:
Bioethics and Patent Law: The Case of Myriad available at
http://www/wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/04/article_0003.html
c. Programs for Computer
Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. ___ (2014)
Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63
Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175
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iii)
Schering Corp. vs. Geneva Pharmaceuticals, 339 F.3d 1371 (Fed. Cir.
2003)
Enablement Standard for Anticipation
In re Hafner, 410 F.2d 1403 (C.C.P.A 1969)
Undue Experimentation
The Incandescent Lamp Patent, 159 U.S. 465 (1895)
In re Wands, 858 F.2d 731, 8 U.S.P.Q.2d 14000 (Fed. Cir. 1988)
Limitations on Amendments
Section 49, IP Code
The Gentry Gallery, Inc. v, The Berkline Corp., 134 F.3d 1473 (Fed. Cir. 1998)
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f.
Definite Claims
Orthokinetics v. Safety Travel Chairs, Inc. 806 F.2d 1565, 1 U.S.P.Q. 2d 1081 (Fed.
Cir. 1986)
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