Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cripps question

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables: cripp-s ques-tion
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

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.

Inflected Forms

the Cripps question (canonical)

Questions

What does cripps question mean?: 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.
Where does cripps question come from?: 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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