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Thus the patentability criteria largely involves novelty, inventive step and industrial application or usability of the invention. In addition, section 3 of the Patent Act, 1970, also provides a list of non-patentable inventions for e.g. inventions that are frivolous or contrary to well established to natural laws. [8]
Patentable, statutory or patent-eligible subject matter is subject matter of an invention that is considered appropriate for patent protection in a given jurisdiction. The laws and practices of many countries stipulate that certain types of inventions should be denied patent protection.
Instead, the Federal Circuit and the USPTO adopted the machine-or-transformation test for patentability of processes. Judge Pauline Newman wrote a short dissent in In Re Bilski, arguing for a broader definition of the patentability of processes. [36] The US Supreme Court in its following cases (see below) essentially adopted the Newman's position.
The "patentability" of inventions (defining the types things that qualify for patent protection) is defined under Sections 100–105. Most notably, section 101 [9] sets out "subject matter" that can be patented; section 102 [10] defines "novelty" and "statutory bars" to patent protection; section 103 [11] requires that an invention to be "non ...
Netscape Commc'ns Corp. v. Konrad is an example of a case that focuses on the public use and on-sale criteria of this section. This section of US code was affected by the America Invents Act (AIA). The most important part of section 102 now reads as follows: [6] (a) NOVELTY; PRIOR ART.—A person shall be entitled to a patent unless—
The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which subject matter in these fields is patentable under the Convention on the Grant of European Patents of October 5, 1973.
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