The answer is yes, You can patent a process. This is when you obtain a utility patent that protects a sequence of steps used to make a physical object. To be patentable, your process must contain patentable subject matter. It must also be unique and useful.
If you have applied technology to perform a business method that directly improves or adds value to it, then you could apply for patent protection. Your application and implementation of the method or process must also be novel and inventive.
Do some more research. An idea cannot be patented. Patent laws define the subject matter which can be protected, typically an apparatus, product, process or composition of matter. There must be some reduction to practice -- actual or constructive -- in one of those classes for a patent to issue.
In United States patent law, a method, also called "process", is one of the four principal categories of things that may be patented through "utility patents". The other three are a machine, an article of manufacture (also termed a manufacture), and a composition of matter.
Yes, you can patent a teaching method as a process patent, provided it meets certain criteria. In the United States, for a teaching method to be patentable, it must satisfy the following conditions: Novelty: The method must be new and not previously disclosed or used by others.
A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention. In other words, a patent is an exclusive right to a product or a process that generally provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem.
The United States Patent Act states that “whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.” Therefore, simply using a patented product ...
Product Patents: A drug molecule patented by the process of its synthesis rather than its chemical structure. Process Patents: A new form of insulin patented by the process used to produce it (not by its chemical composition).
In the United States, there are three types of patents, all governed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO): utility, design, and plant. Chemical patents can protect chemical compounds, compositions of matter, methods of making the chemical compound or composition, and methods of use.
These guidelines assert that a process, including a process for doing business, must produce a concrete, useful and tangible result in order to be patentable.