Invention — New Definition

The definition of the word invention was amended in 2003. Earlier an invention meant any new and useful (i) art, process, method or manner of manufacture ; (ii) machine apparatus or other article ; (iii) substance produced by manufacture and includes any new and useful improvement of any of them and alleged invention

Invention, according to the new amendment, means a new product or process involving inventive step and capable of industrial application. Inventive step means a feature of an invention that involves technical advance as compared to the existing knowledge or having economic significance or both and that makes the invention not obvious to a person skilled in the art.

Any drug or medicine that results in a new product that can cure a disease is patentable. However, the products of Ayurveda, though inventive, are not patentable as that is considered traditional knowledge.

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