Patent
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Patent, means a patent granted under this Act. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (m)]
The effect of the grant of a patent is quid pro quo, quid is the knowledge disclosed to the public and quo is the monopoly granted for the term of the patent. S. 12 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1911 sets out that a patent once granted confers on the patentee the exclusive privilege of making, selling and using the invention throughout India and of authorising others so to do. This is the quo. The quid is compliance with the various provisions resulting in the grant of the patent, Raj Parkash v. Mangat Ram Choudhary, AIR 1978 Del 1.
Means a grant of some privilege, property, or authority, made by the Government or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals, Aphali Pharmaceuticals Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2227 (2235): (1989) 4 SCC 378.
The effect of the grant of a patent is quid pro quo, quid is the knowledge disclosed to the public and quo is the monopoly granted for the term of the patent. S. 12 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1911 sets out that a patent once granted confers on the patentee the exclusive privilege of making, selling and using the invention throughout India and of authorising others so to do. This is the quo. The quid is compliance with the various provisions resulting in the grant of the patent, Raj Parkash v. Mangat Ram Choudhary, AIR 1978 Del 1.
Means a grant of some privilege, property, or authority, made by the Government or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals, Aphali Pharmaceuticals Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2227 (2235): (1989) 4 SCC 378.
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