Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 258 · Decided 13 December 1978
Biswanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v. Hindustan Metal Industries
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 258 · [1979] 2 S.C.R. 757
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1630/1969
- Decided
- 13 December 1978
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, V.D. TULZAPURKAR, A.P. SEN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
B Indian Patent and Designs Act, 1911-Patent law, object, fundamental pri1Jciple-Utility of invention, whether necessary-Patentable improvement, requirements-Novelty artd inventive step test of-Grant of patent, whether guarantees validity-Specification, how to be construed. Th~ appellant and the busi- ness of ra.anufacturing utensils at Mirzapur. In 1951 one of the partners of C the respondent firm claimed to have invented a device and method for manu~ facturing ulensils, intrcducing improvement, convenience, speed, safety and better finish, in !he old prevalent method which mw fraught
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