Procedures of Acquiring and Litigating (Contesting) Inventors’ Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Focus on the Procedural Role of Technical Expert Witnesses

Abstract

Technical experts play a key role in the procedures of importance for the acquisition and denial of invention
rights, i.e., of establishing and litigating patent rights, as providing respective reports to institutions deliberating the following
legal facts and elements as to: whether an innovation is new or not, whether it has a satisfactory level of invention,
whether it is eligible for industrial production, and when it comes to know how, whether it is of a particular technical use
and characterized as a business secret.