Discussion
The first legislation in India relating to Patents was the Act VI of 1856. This legislation has :
(i) objective to encourage inventions of new and useful manufacturers
(ii) objective is to induce inventors to disclose secret of their inventions
(iii) subsequently repealed by IX of 1857
(iv) based upon New York State Constitution of 1846
Answer: A
Statements (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
Act VI of 1856, India's first patent law, granted exclusive privileges to inventors in order to encourage inventions of new and useful manufactures and to induce inventors to disclose the secret of their inventions. It was repealed by Act IX of 1857 because it had been enacted without the approval of the British Crown, and fresh legislation followed in 1859.
Statement (iv) is wrong: the Act was modelled on the British patent law of 1852, not on the New York State Constitution, so the option including (iv) is wrong and the others omit a correct statement.
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