European Union

Bahrain, Kingdom of

Patents (including Plant Variety Protection)

31. Please clarify if the patent protection of a process, as provided for in your legislation, covers the product obtained directly by that process.

As indicated in the response to question 29, Article 11 of the draft Law on Patents and Utility Models provides that where the subject matter of a patent is a process, the patent holder has the exclusive right to prevent third parties not having the holder's consent from the acts of using the process, and from the acts of using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for those purposes the products obtained directly by that process.