Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Invention
n. 1. A patentable device or process created through independent effort and characterized by an extraordinary degree of skill or ingenuity; a newly discovered art or operation. ( Invention embraces the concept of nonobviousness. 2. The act or process of creating such a device or process. 3. Generally, anything that is created or devised. - invent, ubinvention' is any art, machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or inay be patentable under the patent laws. [37 CFR501.3(d).]" 60 Am. Jur. 2d Patents ยง 894, at 60
conception of invention
The formation in the inventor's mind of a definite and permanent idea of a complete invention that is thereafter applied in practice. ( Courts usu. consider conception when determining priority of invention.
priority of invention
The determination that one among several patent applications, for substantially the same invention, should receive the patent when the Patent and Trademark Office has declared interference. ( This determination depends on the date of conception, the date of reduction to practice, and diligence.
same invention
Patents. 1. A second invention claiming the identical subject matter as a previous invention. 2. Within a reissue statute, the invention described in the original patent.
same-invention double patenting
See DOUBLE PATENTING (1).
secondary invention
Patents. An invention that uses or incorporates established elements or combinations to achieve a new and useful result.