CHAPTER – 2: PATENT IN OUTER SPACE
Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut and botanist, is left behind on Mars by his crewmates due to a heavy sandstorm. Forced to survive in adverse circumstances on a planet where nothing grows, Watney used his knowledge to grow plants (potatoes) in an improvised greenhouse. But what if those potatoes were covered by a patent on Earth? Would Watney infringe the patentee's rights by growing it without the patentee's consent or license? Probably not! Patent infringement provisions are not established in the treaties governing activities in outer space. What if the method used by the astronaut to grow the potatoes was also patented? The answer would be no different! In reality, Mark Watney is a fictional character, and this story is the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, The Martian. However, as technology progresses, the use of inventions in…show more content… As all licenses are fundamentally a similar it may not be essential at this phase to add to the patent field another settlement. The assignment is to ensure that the current necessities are connected well while remembering that the reality the space is a unique domain to do logical tests. As needs be, the present coordination work needs to concentrate on the procedural perspectives.
2.4. SPACE PATENT
What sort of development can be enrolled as 'space patent'? Space Patent office might manage patent identified with space exercises. Five classifications of innovations have been distinguished to be identified with space exercises: Inventions made on earth for space applications, Inventions made on earth for earthbound applications because of space exercises, Inventions made in space for earthbound applications, Inventions made in space for spatial applications and Inventions protected on earth for spatial applications utilized as a part of space.
2.5. EXTENSION OF PATENT PROTECTION IN OUTER
