English Explanatory Dictionary

Cripps question

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A legal test as to whether an invention is obvious, based on whether a skilled person with existing knowledge could have invented it as a matter of routine.

Word forms

Cripps question the Cripps question

Etymology

Posed in the 1920s by Stafford Cripps in a British patent case about n-hexyl resorcinol, Sharp & Dohme Inc v Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd.

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