Patents and their governing laws are very different from country to country, since each country has their own way of interpreting and also depends countries' industrial growth and requirement. Before 2005, India have not had granted product patent for pharmaceutical/agrochemical innovations, to protect India's generic industry.
In the name of globalization, to protect foreign investments and exploring new markets, many international agreements and co-operations, were established
1) Paris conventions
2)Patent cooperation treaty (by WIPO; UN)
3) TRIPS (by WTO; UN)
4) Regional treaty like
European patent convention (EPC), Eurasian patent organization (EAPO), The cooperation council for the arab states of the Gulf (GCC), African regional intellectual property organization (ARIPO), African intellectual property organization (OAPI).
TRIPS agreement is major break through to bring minimum standards in countries' patent/IP and related laws to enhance international business activities in unexplored big markets like many asian countries, africa, latin america and like.
New Developments are
1) patent prosecution highway (PPH) cooperation between large volume patent offices to prevent repeated work
2) Community patent for European union (enhanced version for EPC)
3) IP5 (joined project by major 5 IP offices)
Disclaimer:
there may be some errors since these are my personal views on patent and related law
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