Sir Nicholas Pumfrey J., in an attempt to guide the judicial mind to segregate obvious patents from nonobvious inventions, noted that: “Both the Scylla of considering nothing obvious except that to which the skilled man is driven and the Charybdis of considering every invention obvious that...

Patents are unilateral declarations by an inventor which when approved by the patent office stand unchallenged for the remainder of its life. The only way by which its credibility or truth can be questioned, is by putting forward a challenge before a court of law. This is a hugely expensive and...