These provisions, placed today in Chapter V of the UPCA, include the definition of the patent’s owner prerogatives to prevent the direct and indirect use of the invention (Art. 25 and 26), the list of limitations concerning the scope of patent protection, including inter alia, acts done privately or for experimental purposes, the use of biological material for the purpose of breeding, discovering and developing other plant varieties (Art. 27), the condition of the right for prior use… [read post]