This Handbook provides an overview of federal patent and trademark law. Information discussed includes types of patents and trademarks, duration of registration, requirements for obtaining, a guide to the application process, protecting your patent or trademark, and much more in 18 pages of materials.
The purpose of this guide is to provide you with basic information about filing a utility patent application with the USPTO. If you want a patent, you have to describe the invention with enough detail that someone can make and use the invention based on the information in the patent.A utility patent protects a new or improved process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter. The first is whether it is possible to obtain a patent on an invention that involves a combination of known, "off-the-shelf" parts. You must include as named inventors anyone who conceived of an invention in any claim even dependent claims. You know that a compound for a new use can be patented in principle (Art. Bottle label for Valentine Hassmer's Lung and Cough Syrup features text is a variety of type. Syrups.