Patent and proprietary medicines, a 'patent medicine' means medicine in respect of which a patent is in force, 'proprietary' means of a proprietor, that is, holding proprietary rights. Patent means a grant of some privilege, property, or authority made by the government or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals. A proprietor is one who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything. On a comparison of the earlier Explanation and the substituted Explanation earlier, Patent and proprietary meant a drug. In the substituted explanation, it means any medicinal preparation, Aphali Pharmaceuticals Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2227 (2235): (1989) 4 SCC 378: (1989) Supp 1 SCR 129.
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