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Cripps question
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English
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.
Proper noun
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en patent law 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.
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