Step 4 Determining Validity ? – PAGE 326 S18(1) provides that invention will be a patentable invention for the purposes of a ‘an standard patent’ if it: Is a of manufacture within the meaning of s6 of the Statute of ‘manner Monopolies’; Is novel, and Involves an inventive step; Is useful; and Has not been the subject of secret use. Manner of Manufacture PAGE 327 Must be a in order to be patentable. The words of of manufacture’ ‘manner ‘manner manufacture’ have come to denote either: a product which can be produced by following instructions in the patent specification; or a process or method which similarly, can be used to achieve certain results by following the specification. National Research Development Corp v Commissioner of Patents (NRDC Case) High court suggested that could be taken to refer to the production of ‘Manufacture’ tangible goods because that is its connotation in every speech. There must be some industrial or commercial trading character about the of manufacture’ in order to gain protection. ‘manner Re GEC’s Application Suggested that processes were also within ‘manufacture’.
Step 4 – Determining Validity ? PAGE 326 S18(1) provides that ‘an invention will be a patentable invention for the purposes of a standard patent’ if it: Is a ‘manner of manufacture within the meaning of s6 of the Statute of Monopolies’; Is novel, and Involves an inventive step; Is useful; and Has not been the subject of secret use. Manner of Manufacture PAGE 327 Must be a ‘manner of manufacture’ in order to be patentable. The words ‘manner of manufacture’ have come to denote either: a product which can be produced by following instructions in the patent specification; or a process or method which similarly, can be used to achieve certain results by following the specification. National Research Development Corp v Commissioner of Patents (NRDC Case) High court suggested that ‘Manufacture’ could be taken to refer to the production of tangible goods because that is its connotation in every speech. There must be some industrial or commercial trading character about the ‘manner of manufacture’ in order to gain protection. Re GEC’s Application Suggested that processes were also within ‘manufacture’.
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