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Dear Jamilu,
The e-TISC team appreciates your input. You are right.
Nevertheless, could you please explain "some exceptions to this position" as you stated above by giving some examples?
Many thanks in advance and hope to read from you soon.
Kind regards,
Elangi
There may be exceptions to this position.
If you're working on an invention and to get to the next level, you take on consultants to work on some critical aspect of the invention, which will help determine the extent of claims you can have over the invention, I do not think that such "disclosure" particularly if governed by an agreement will be deemed "public disclosure" even though it may appear to have been disclosed to a third party prior to filing for a patent.
Eg: If they come to Argentina and could see the technologies and medical advanced treatments one could elucidate Soble IPs, patent Industrial, Brand extensions, adequate Production, Training, view of the market and hospital needs ye good management faramaco, supply , reaching the cionciencia of these scientific results raises the need to products and research and development in the same country, making industrial licensing and production to supply them.