WHAT CAN BE PROTECTED AS A PATENT
According t the UAE Federal Law No. 17 of 2002 the Patent shall be granted
to every new invention arising form an innovative idea or a creative improvement
of an innovation that is protected by a patent, in all technological spheres,
and each of them shall be established on scientific basis, and can be exploited
industrially; whether it shall be pertinent to new industrial products, or
methods or created industrial means or a new application of known industrial
methods and means.
The innovation shall be considered susceptible to industrial application if it
shall be possible to apply or use it in any kind of industry in its widest
meaning including in this agriculture, hunting, handicrafts, and services.
The application must be attached with one invention only or for a group of
inventions that are interconnected in a way that shall form one new general
innovative concept.
If it appears after the issuance of the patent, that the absence of the
interconnection of the innovations condition, according to what is stipulated in
the previous paragraph, then such a failure shall not be a reason to drop the
patent.
The law protects the subject matter of a patent if it is:
- A PRODUCT - to prevent third parties who do not have the owner’s
consent, from the acts of making, using, selling, or importing that product.
- A PROCESS - to prevent third parties who do not have the owner’s
consent, from the acts of using that process and from selling or importing
the product obtained directly by that process.
WHAT CANNOT BE PROTECTED AS A PATENT
The patent or the benefit certificate shall not be granted for the
following:
- Researches, species of plants or animals or biological methods of the
reproduction of plants or animals. It shall be exempted from this
Microbiology Sciences methods and their production.
- Methods of diagnoses, treatment, and surgery which is necessary for the
treatment of humans or animals.
- Principles, discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods.
- Plans, rules, methods followed-up to practice commercial businesses, to
exercise mere mental activities, or any game.
- Inventions from whose publication or exploitation a violation of the
public code or ethics shall arise.
- If it shall appear to the management, on the inspection of the patent
application, its relation to national defense, the procedures stipulated in
the executive regulations of this law shall be followed.