Document Fragment View

Matching Fragments

In patent law, a plan or contrivance, or an application, adjustment, shaping, or combination of materials or members, for the purpose of accomplishing a particular result or serving a particular use, chiefly by mechanical means and usually simple in character or not highly complex, but involving the exercise of the inventive faculty."

(3) Law Lexicon The Encyclopaedic Law Dictionary (2nd Edition Reprint 2007): That which is devised or formed by design; a contrivance; an artificial contrivance. So also the term has been variously defined as meaning an invention; a stratagem; a project; a scheme-often a scheme to deceive; and artifice; also, used to denote hearing or emblematic representation or motto.

(4)The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary published by Lexicon Publications, Inc., New York : a scheme, trick, stratagem, something designed or adapted for a special purpose, a device for trimming hedges, a heraldic design, a motto to leave someone to his own devices to allow someone to do as he pleases, to have someone to fend for himself.

(5) The Random House Dictionary of the English Language published by Random House/ New York: 1. a thing that is made, usually for a particular working purpose; an invention or contrivance, esp. a mechanical or electrical one. 2. a plan or scheme for effecting a purpose. 3. a crafty scheme, trick. 4. a representation or design used as a heraldic charge or as an emblem, badge, trademark, or the like. 5. a motto. 6. something elaborately or fancifully designed. 7. a particular word pattern, figure or speech, combination of word sounds etc. used in a literary work to evoke a desired effect or arouse a desired reaction in the reader

(3) The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary published by Lexicon Publications, Inc., New York : that which enables some purpose to be fulfilled, the method used to achieve a purpose, material resources (income etc.) (4) The Random House Dictionary of the English Language published by Random House/ New York: available resources, riches, considerable financial resources.

68. The meaning of term "artificial" has been defined in various dictionaries as under:

(1) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Seventh Edition) published by Oxford University Press: 1. made or produced to copy sth natural; not real 2. created by people, not happening naturally 3. not what it appears to be (2) Black's Law Dictionary (5th Edition): As opposed to "natural", means created or produced by man. Created by art, or by law; existing only by force of or in contemplation of law.
(3) Law Lexicon The Encyclopaedic Law Dictionary (2nd Edition Reprint 2007): Created by art, or by law; existing only by force of or in contemplation of law. Opposite to natural; made by or resulting from art or artifice; made by art in imitation or, or as a substitute for, what is natural or real (4)The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary published by Lexicon Publications, Inc., New York : man-made (as opposed to natural) (5) The Random House Dictionary of the English Language published by Random House/ New York: 1. made by human skill, produced by man (opposed to natural). 2. made in limitation or as a substitute: not genuine or real; simulated 3. lacking naturalness or spontaneity, forced, contrived; feigned 4. full of affection, affected; stilted 5. made without regard to the particular; conventional; unnatural.