How to File a Patent in Florida Do You Have an Idea or Invention? Every invention begins as an idea. Perform Market Research. Verify Patent Eligibility. Conduct a Patent Search. Determine Inventorship & Ownership. Choose the Type of Patent. Prepare the Patent Application. Submit the Patent Application.
Utility patent application: may be filed by anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
Patent applications: the three criteria Novelty. This means that your invention must not have been made public – not even by yourself – before the date of the application. Inventive step. This means that your product or process must be an inventive solution. Industrial applicability.
There are three types of patents: utility, design and plant. Utility and plant patent applications can be provisional and nonprovisional. Provisional applications may not be filed for design inventions.