No Protection for Small Inventions
Scope
Incremental inventions that fall short of the inventive step get nothing, where many countries offer a utility model.
Authorities to start from
- Patents Act, 1970, § 2(1)(j)
- Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Discussion Paper on Utility Models (2011)
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