Edited by GRAIN

February 1998

History: Pakistan's intellectual property rights law derives from the Indian Patent and Designs Act of 1911 as existed in 1947 and as amended in 1983.

Membership: WIPO

Provisions until now: Inventions contrary to law or morality are excluded.

SOURCE Alan Jacobs (ed.), Patents Throughout the World, Clark, Boardman & Callaghan, New York, Release #33, December 1989.