TERMS USED IN PHARMACY AND IN DESCRIBING EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS AS ARISE OUT OF PATENTS ON INVENTIONS PROTECTING PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS
The paper deals with pharmaceutical chemistry terms such as "pharmaceutically acceptable salts" and "pharmaceutically acceptable carrier", as used in patent do-cuments currently in effect in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is suggested that in determining the scope of rights arising out of patent claims in respect of pharmaceutical compositions and for the purposes of their unambiguous interpretation by specialists in diverse branches of knowledge, guidance should be taken from the source of information generally accepted in the Republic of Kazakhstan, namely State Pharmacopoeia of the Republic of Kazakhstan "State Pharmacopoeia of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (Volume 1) as approved by Order №131 issued by the Health Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan and dated 11 March 2008; and (Volume 2) as approved by Order №707 issued by the Health Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan and dated 31 December 2008 (Zhibek Joly Publishers, City of Almaty). The paper notes the importance of combining pharmaceutical and patent information with the aim of finding out promptly whether or not it is possible to put medicinal drugs in civil turnover on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. To be able to clarify the legal status of a medi-cinal drug, an information search must be launched using the State Registers database maintained by the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and a patent search must be conducted using the State Register of Inventions maintained by the Minis- try of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan.