Patenting

Patents are taken to protect the inventor's financial interests and therefore are considered technology. New inventions which are not common knowledge or obvious and which potentially have commercial applications can be patented. In this class, in biotechnology, new procedures, new compounds, new cell lines, new organisms and new applications are patentable. One can only take a patent on an invention or apply for one, before it is published or writhen a six months period of publication.

In addition to the cost of patenting, one of the major problems is the marketing of a patent. The HCST has an agreement with an international non-profit company which is ready to study patent proposals from us and, if found feasible, to carry out the patenting and the marketing of the patent and take 43% of the proceeds from the patent.

Local patenting may give the holder of the patent international protection for some time.