Saint Olave's Law Society Journal ; Issue 01 (Autumn 2013) | Page 21

Saint
 Olave’s
 Law
 Society
 Journal

CHEMICAL
  PATENTS
  STRUCTURES

HARRY
 JENKINS

Chemical
 Patents

  A
 chemical
 patent
 is
 a
 patent
 for
 an
  invention
 in
 the
 pharmaceutical
  industry,
 a
 patent
 being
 a
 set
 of
 rights
  granted
 to
 an
 inventor
 for
 a
 set
 period
 of
  time
 in
 exchange
 for
 the
 invention
 (a
  product
 or
 process
 that
 solves
 a
 specific
  technological
 problem)
 to
 become
  public
 knowledge.

  Chemical
 patents
 are
 extremely
  important
 in
 the
 pharmaceutical
  industry
 as
 drugs
 and
 medicines
 can
  easily
 be
 copied,
 this
 can
 be
 done
 by
  analysing
 the
 substance
 for
 the
 active
  ingredient
 via
 various
 classical
 and
  instrumental
 analytical
 techniques
  which
 depend
 upon
 the
 drug.
 This
 is
  particularly
 problemental
 due
 to
 the
  significant
 amount
 of
 money
 spent
 on
  research
 and
 development
 as
 well
 as
 the
  high