Novelty And Clarity: What Inapi Rejections Reveal About The Language Needs Of Algerian Student-entrepreneurs
Auteurs : Bouzidi Souraya . Idri Nadia . Souhali Hichem .
Résumé
The institutionalisation of the student-entrepreneur in the Algerian university, following Ministerial Decree No. 1275 establishing the Technology and Innovation Support Centres (CATI), has multiplied patent applications filed with INAPI (Algerian National Institute of Industrial Property). Yet a substantial share of these applications fails. This study analyses an authentic corpus of thirty-five notifications issued by INAPI in response to applications filed by Abbas Laghrour University of Khenchela. Drawing on genre analysis and French for Specific Purposes (FSP), the analysis reveals a dual, institutionally attested obstacle: a massive substantive obstacle, namely the lack of novelty (Article 04 of Ordinance No. 03-07) and the ground for twenty-seven substantive rejections, and a standardised discursive obstacle consisting of claims deemed insufficiently clear and poorly structured (Article 27), the object of eight strictly identical admissibility reports. Rather than opposing the technical to the discursive, these data show that the students' difficulty lies at the junction of the two: failing to situate an invention within a documented state of the art is as much a prior art search deficit as a discursive failure to write the already-known. The study outlines the principles of an FSP module dedicated to the genres of intellectual property.
Mots clés
FSP ; genre analysis ; patent ; novelty ; claims ; INAPI ; student-entrepreneur
