Apart from the basic statutory definition in section 65 of the Intellectual Property Act of Sri Lanka, there do not appear to be any detailed statutory guidelines or judicial decisions to provide any framework for the assessment of inventive step in Sri Lanka. The current statutory definition is...

The objective of granting patent rights is to confer monopoly rights, the rights to exclusive use and exploitation of one’s invention to the exclusion of all the others. However, this essentially requires that the rights claimed may only be realised once the claimed invention satisfies the...

The key constitutional issue surrounding the unitary patent system is the complete loss of national and the EU’s sovereignty in the context of industrial property and hence, use of technology – that is unprecedented. This context concerns the entire range of technological sectors including...

This symposium article discusses issues raised for patent processes and policy created by inventions generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Using insights from economic research on intellectual property rights, it argues in favor of allowing patent protection for AI-generated inventions....

The pandemic forced the entire civilization to adapt to the new normal. Covid-19 made people reimagine and recalibrate their ways of working. The field of IPR was no different. The pandemic forced dramatic changes in the IPR regime, especially, Patents, as at the helm of battling the pandemic...

The challenges imposed by climate change urgently require new technologies to reduce environmental damage and make more efficient use of natural resources. Patent law is generally considered an important tool to promote innovation. The question therefore arises as to its role with regard to...