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A patent is the set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor in order to prevent others from commercially using this invention. When a patent is granted for a biological invention, it is called as biopatent.
A patent is granted for
(i) an invention
(ii) improvement in an earlier invention
(iii) a process
(iv) a concept or a design
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