Landmark case · Intellectual Property Law · Semester 4
Diamond v. Chakrabarty
447 U.S. 303 (1980) · Supreme Court of the United States
A live, human-made micro-organism was patentable subject-matter as a manufacture or composition of matter.
From topic
Patentable subject-matter, novelty, inventive step and section 3(d) — Unit II, Intellectual Property Law.
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