Landmark case · Intellectual Property Law · Semester 4

Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v. Hindustan Metal Industries

AIR 1982 SC 1444 · Supreme Court of India

A patent requires novelty and utility; a workshop improvement obvious to a skilled person is not an invention.

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Related sections:

Patents Act, 1970, 2(1)(j) — Invention
Patents Act, 1970, 3 — What are not inventions
Patents Act, 1970, 3(d) — Mere discovery of a new form of a known substance without enhanced efficacy
Patents Act, 1970, 10 — Contents of specification