2.6 National and International Instruments

2.6.1 The Patent, Design and Trademark Act, 2022 (Patent related Provisions)The Nepali patent's regime (by name-and-effect): the application-and-examination (the Department of Industry's-and-the Industrial-Property-Section's administration — U7.1); the patentability's-and-the exclusions' faces (the Act's-and-the Rules' catalogue); the grant's-and-the term's (the Act's twenty-year's-and-the renewal's discipline); the specification's-and-the amendment's requirements; the rights'-and-the infringement's-and-the penalties' faces (the complaint's-and-the fine's-and-the-compensation's regime); the convention-applications' faces (the Paris-priority's domestic implementation); and the honest critique (the Act's 1965-vintage's age — the modernisation's-and-the Industrial-Property-Bill's long-pending story; the examination's-and-the-capacity's gaps (the few-grant's reality)); the prescribed case's window: Dr. Daman Bdr.2.6.2 WIPO Administered Treaties relating to PatentThe treaty family (by name): the Paris Convention (the priority's-and-the-nationals' base); the Patent Cooperation Treaty 1970 (the PCT — the single-international-application's-and-the search's-and-the examination's route: the national-phase's entry (the 150-plus's membership; the Nepal's-PCT status to be checked against the current tables)); the Budapest Treaty 1977 (the micro-organisms' deposit); the PLT 2000 (the formalities' harmonisation); the TRIPS' patent standards (2.6.3) — the WIPO's services (the PCT's filing's-and-the-registration's functions of U1.6.3).2.6.3 TRIPS Agreement (Patent related Provisions)The patent's TRIPS faces: the Article-27's patentable-subject-matter (the all-fields-of-technology's mandate (the twenty-years' term; the product-and-process's equality)); the exclusions'-and-the exceptions' (the diagnostic-methods' bar; the plants'-and-animals' option (the UPOV's-or-the-sui- generis' choice)); the Article-28's rights (the making-using-offering-selling-importing); the Article-29's disclosure (the sufficient-and-the best-method faces); the Article-30's-and-31'slimits (the limited-exceptions'-and-the compulsory-licensing's disciplines (2.4's detail)); the Article-32's revocation and the…