Plaintiffs conduct entitles it to damages and all other remedies at law.
Plaintiffs conduct entitles it to damages and all other remedies at law.
A provisional application is a quick, inexpensive way for you to establish a U.S. filing date for your invention that can be claimed in a later-filed U.S. nonprovisional, PCT, and/or foreign application. Provisional applications will not be examined and never lead to patents by themselves.
These five steps will help you plan out the patent process as you seek to protect your invention. Understand your invention. The first step in how to get a patent is to understand your invention. Research your invention. Choose the type of protection. Draft your patent application. Wait for a formal response.
Patents must be for inventions that are useful. This means the item being patented has a credible, specific and substantial purpose. Utility must be specific to the item being patented; general utility that applies to a broad class of items will not suffice.
The five primary requirements for patentability are: (1) patentable subject matter; (2) utility; (3) novelty; (4) non-obviousness; and (5) enablement. Like trademarks, patents are territorial, meaning they are enforceable in a specific geographic area.
The five primary requirements for patentability are: (1) patentable subject matter; (2) utility; (3) novelty; (4) non-obviousness; and (5) enablement. Like trademarks, patents are territorial, meaning they are enforceable in a specific geographic area.
Patents can protect lots of different types of inventions like medical technology, pharmaceuticals, appliances, and mechanical devices.
Examples of patentable inventions include chemical compounds, computer hardware, machines, drugs, mechanical devices and industrial processes. The iPhone, 3D printer, helicopter drone, solar panel, GPS and bionic eye would be classic examples.
Machines, medicines, computer programs, articles made by machines, compositions, chemicals, biogenetic materials, and processes, can all be the subject matter for a United States patent.
Patents may be granted for inventions in any field of technology, from an everyday kitchen utensil to a nanotechnology chip. An invention can be a product – such as a chemical compound, or a process, for example – or a process for producing a specific chemical compound.
A very simple example for a patent claim: "A furniture having at least three legs." An easily understandable example of a claim is: "A furniture having at least three legs." This claim covers all the chairs, tables and every furniture that has at least three legs.