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Can Ingredients be Patented? Though an ingredient itself cannot be patented (unless you somehow invented it), the use of it in a product or formula can be patented. Again, the presence of the ingredient cannot be obvious.

You cannot patent a recipe. You need to protect the recipe as a trade secret (like Coca-Cola does with its secret formula, which has never been patented). You can do that through use of confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, and by being very careful about the persons to whom you choose to share your recipe.

In a legal context, the content of a math book, including diagrams, word problems, and illustrations, can be copyrighted. However, the mathematical formulas, problems, proofs, and theorems themselves cannot be copyrighted. Facts that are established and natural, such as 22=4, cannot be copyrighted.

Patent requirements Your invention is totally new has never been described in a publication or in a patent application. No one has ever made the exact same thing. A non-obvious invention is one that wouldn't be apparent to others. The mere idea to combine two known things is not something you can patent.

The Supreme Court has explained that the judicial exceptions reflect the Court's view that abstract ideas, laws of nature, and natural phenomena are “the basic tools of scientific and technological work”, and are thus excluded from patentability because “monopolization of those tools through the grant of a patent might ...

You can't patent things that already exist in nature or abstract ideas. Mathematical formulas are considered abstract ideas by the patent and trademark office because they are concepts that explain how things work.

Patent law defines the limits of what can be patented. For example, the laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas cannot be patented, nor can only an idea or suggestion.

“Mathematical methods' are considered to be acts of mental skill. A method of calculation, formulation of equations, finding square roots, cube roots and all other methods directly involving mathematical methods are therefore not patentable.

You cannot patent formulas for Mathematics, but you can patent formula applications such as software for applying the patent formula. If something is new, original, and useful can it be patented? If it involves an inventive step and is useful to trade or agriculture it can be patented.