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.
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Utility patents must meet three statutory requirements under 35 U.S.C. § 101 to be considered patentable subject matter: The Invention Must Be New. The Invention Must Be Non-Obvious. The Invention Must Be Useful.
Some main points include: - A patent is a grant given by an authority to an inventor that gives them exclusive rights over their invention for a set period of time, usually 20 years. - The person to whom a patent is granted is called the patentee.
Nearly anything can be patented. 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.
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof, may obtain a patent, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Just talk to a patent attorney, someone who specializes in medical devices. He or she will do a search for you and make sure you're in the clear to apply for a patent. As you know, the FDA does regulate medical devices, but with less scrutiny that medications. It also will depend if the device is implantable or not.
Mechanical engineering innovations can be protected by patenting an end product, a machine and even a technical process, preferably all of these may be protected at the same time.
For example, the laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas cannot be patented, nor can only an idea or suggestion. Other restrictions include the patenting of inventions exclusively related to nuclear material or atomic energy in an atomic weapon (see MPEP 2104.01).
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Pro se personnel are available to meet with applicants to answer patentrelated questions and assist in filing their applications. Each patent application has several forms that must be filled out and submitted.A list of these forms can be found here. The computerdelivered examination includes 100 multiplechoice questions, of which 90 are scored. Most importantly, patent applications must be filed within one year of the date an invention is publicly disclosed. BU's Technology Development office is here support you from idea conception to patent filing, monitoring, and maintenance. Discusses the patent process and marketing of your idea as well as promoting your product. The legal answer is, of course, yes. Thomas Jefferson filed his own patent application, as have many inventors over the last two centuries. Some of your time is required during the preparation stage of the patent application, but you can minimize this if you have a manuscript available.