Wellcome Foundation Ltd v Commissioner of Patents - [1979] 2 NZLR 591

Patents — Application for letters patent for a process of treating or preventing meningeal leukemia or neoplasms in the brain — Whether a method of treating a human ailment with a known substance is patentable: whether the applicant's process is an "invention" under the Act; whether it relates to a "manner of new manufacture" — Patents Act 1953, ss 2(1) and 51.