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The draft bill expands the scope of the patentable subject matter by abolishing the judicial exceptions. [67] More specifically, the proposed sections read: [68] Section 100: (k) The term "useful" means any invention or discovery that provides specific and practical utility in any field of technology through human intervention.
As with all utility patents in the United States, a biological patent provides the patent holder with the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing the claimed invention or discovery in biology for a limited period of time - for patents filed after 1998, 20 years from the filing date.
A. Gas centrifuge; A Manufacturing Language; Abel Axe; Aberdeen chronograph; Abraham Lincoln's patent; Acrylic paint; Active Denial System; Active pen; Active-pixel sensor
This invention -- Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin on March 14, 1794. For the first time, American plantation owners would be able to harvest large amounts of cotton profitably.
An "invention" is obvious (and therefore ineligible for a patent) if a person of "ordinary skill" in the relevant field of technology would have thought the technology was obvious, on the filing date of the patent application. Legislatively the requirement for non-obviousness was established in the Patent Act of 1952. Specifically, 35 U.S.C ...
Only utility patents (or the international equivalent) are listed, as a utility patent is a patent for an invention. Not all patents are for inventions. Other patent types include: design patents for the ornamental design of an object; plant patents for plant varieties; and reissue patents, where a correction is made to an already granted patent.