Patenting of Living-Matter: An Entry too odd to be Allowed a Place within Patentable Subject Matter?

Patents in the field of biotechnology have always remained a hot-spot for conflicting views on the grant of patents and a call for more stringent standards so as to negate the possibilities of ache on the part of the society as opposed to the benefit granted to the inventor. However, the debate gets even more sensitive when the question of grant of patents relates to claim of patents over life-forms. In this paper, the author makes an attempt to briefly analyze, taking into consideration relevant patent philosophy, scientific reasoning, the patent law in India and international prescriptions, whether or not the patenting of life-forms be allowed to find a place within the patent subject matter.