Technograph v Mills and Rockley, 1972 RPC 346

Citation:Technograph v Mills and Rockley, 1972 RPC 346

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Rule of thumb:What is the fundamental test for obtaining a patent? Where a new product is too obvious then it does not pass the test of being novel – there actually has to be an inventive step – it cannot be a mosaic put together by a clever but unimaginative man.

Ratio-decidendi:

‘In dealing with obviousness, unlike novelty, it is permissible to make a mosaic out of the relevant documents, but it must be a mosaic which can be put together by an unimaginative man with no inventive capacity’, Lord Reid

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