PATENTABILITY of LEGAL RESEARCH FINDINGS in India is:

1. LEGAL RESEARCH FINDINGS are NOT patentable under the Patents Act 1970: 2. (i) Section 3(k) excludes 'a mathematical or business method or a computer programme per se or algorithms'; 3. (ii) Section 3(m) excludes 'a mere scheme or rule or method of performing mental act'; 4. (iii) Section 3(l) excludes 'a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation'; 5. (iv) Legal research is intellectual analysis — not an INVENTION in the patent sense. 6. INTELLECTUAL PROTECTION: 7. (i) COPYRIGHT — Copyright Act 1957 protects legal commentaries, books, articles, judgments as literary works; protects EXPRESSION not IDEAS; 8. (ii) Section 13 Copyright Act 1957 specifies works in which copyright subsists. 9. Hence option B is correct. _Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Patents Act 1970, Section 3; Copyright Act 1957_