A patent is a right granted by an official body, such as the INPI in France, to an individual or company to recognize the origin of a discovery or industrial innovation. It grants its holder a monopoly on exploitation for a specified period, generally 20 years, subject to the payment of annual fees. The protection offered by a patent is directly linked to the claims formulated, which detail the nature and scope of the protection sought. Consequently, a patent acts as a barrier against counterfeiting and can serve as evidence in litigation against counterfeiters. It can be assigned or licensed for use by third parties. Therefore, a patent represents an industrial property right, as do utility certificates and supplementary protection certificates associated with a patent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be patentable, an invention must meet three cumulative criteria: it must be new, have an industrial application, and be inventive. Medicines can be protected by a “special medicinal product patent” (SMP). The strategic impact of a patent depends on its interactions with the market within the innovation process. Therefore, a patent lies between the invention stage, stemming from research, and the innovation stage, in an iterative process involving research, production, and innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Intellectual Property Code specifies that new inventions involving an inventive step and an industrial application are patentable. However, the following are not considered inventions: discoveries, scientific theories, mathematical methods, aesthetic creations, plans, principles, intellectual methods, games, economic activities, computer programs, and presentations of information. An invention is considered new if it is not already known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories-glossary":[332],"class_list":["post-169102","dictionnaire-dico","type-dictionnaire-dico","status-publish","hentry","categories-glossary-intellectual-property-marketing-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionnaire-dico\/169102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionnaire-dico"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionnaire-dico"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categories-glossary","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories-glossary?post=169102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}