• Alisha Thomas

The inventive step is an important characteristic to determine what will be the benefits acquired by the inventor and what would be the cost of such invention. Any patent application cannot afford to have a lack of inventive step or non-obvious creation. Once the patent application fulfils newness, the next step is to prove inventiveness in the invention. It has been recognised by the Indian Patent regime that any invention which does technological advancement and has economic significance is said to have inventive step. India has witnessed increase in patent fillings and as a result the criteria for inventive step are tested to accept any invention as having an inventive step. This research paper would dwell into more refined tests to determine inventiveness or inventive step in any invention.

Inventive step, non-obviousness, novelty, original, patent.

"A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENT OF “INVENTIVE STEP” WITH RESPECT TO INDIAN PATENT ACT, 1970 AND 2005 AMENDMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.b834-b839, August-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108234.pdf

"A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENT OF “INVENTIVE STEP” WITH RESPECT TO INDIAN PATENT ACT, 1970 AND 2005 AMENDMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no. ppb834-b839, August-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108234.pdf