European Union
Albania
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.
According to Article 27, paragraph 2 of the law: Where the patent concerns a process, the owner of the patent shall have the right to prevent third parties from performing, without his authorization, the following acts: a) the using of a process which is the subject matter of the patent; b) in respect of any product directly obtained by such process, any of the acts referred to in paragraph (1)(b), even where a patent cannot be obtained for the said product; c) the inducing of other parties to perform any of the above acts.