Invention

Invention, 'invention' means any manner of new manufacture and includes an improvement and an allied invention'. [s. 2(8) of 1911 Act.] It is to be noted that unlike the Patents Act, 1970, the Act of 1911 does not specify the requirement of being useful in the definition of 'invention'. But Courts have always taken the view that a patentable invention, apart from being a new manufacture, must also be useful. The foundation for this judicial interpretation is to be found in the fact that s. 26(1)(f) of the 1911 Act recognises lack of utility as one of the grounds on which a patent can be revoked, M/s. Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v. Hindustan Metal Industries, AIR 1982 SC 1444: (1979) 2 SCC 511.Means a new produan inven-tive step and capable of industrial application. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (j)]...

invention

invention : a device, process, or discovery under U.S. patent law that is new and useful, that reflects extraordinary creative ability or skill, and that makes a distinct and recognized contribution to and advancement of science ;also : the act or process of creating such an invention compare aggregation, combination, equivalent ...

Invention, title by

Invention, title by, the mode of acquiring an owner-ship in patent-rights and copyrights. See COPY-RIGHT and LETTERS PATENT....

Inventive

Able and apt to invent quick at contrivance ready at expedients as an inventive head or genius...

Inventibleness

Quality of being inventible...

invent

invent : to create or produce for the first time in·ven·tor n ...

Inventer

One who invents...

Inventible

Capable of being invented...

Letters-patent, or letters overt

Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the sovereign, sealed with the Great Seal of England, whereby a person or public company is enabled to do acts or enjoy privileges which he or it could not do or enjoy without such authority. They are so called because they are open with the seal affixed and ready to be shown for confirmation of the authority thereby given. Peers are sometimes created by letters-patent, and letters-patent of precedence were granted to barristers. By letters-patent aliens are made denizens, and especially new inventions are protected; hence the incorporeal chattel of patent-right.A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone shall be entitled, during a limited period, to make Articles according to his own invention--Statute of Monopolies, 21 Jac. 1, c. 3.To be the subject of a patent-right an article must be material and capable of manufacture, an i...

patent

patent [Anglo-French, from Latin patent- patens, from present participle of patēre to be open] 1 a : open to public inspection see also letters patent at letter b : secured or protected by a patent [a nonexclusive license to produce and sell the product] [sought to enforce her rights against infringement] 2 : of, relating to, or concerned with the granting of patents esp. for inventions [a lawyer] [involved in litigation] 3 : readily seen, discovered, or understood [a defect] [if no bad faith or abuse is ] compare latent pat·ent·ly adv [pat-nt] n 1 : an official document conferring a right or privilege : letters patent at letter 2 a : the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention or products made by an invented process that is granted to an inventor and his or her heirs or assigns for a term of years see also intellectual property at property compare copyright, trademark NOTE: A patent may be granted for a process, act, or method t...

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