Chapter 2100: Patentability
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Summary:Determining whether specific subject matter is patentable is a very difficult task. Therefore, the PTO has many rules and guidelines used to help sort out this dilemma. The patentability guidelines extend to living subject matter and computer related inventions as well as basic engineering designs.
This chapter is tested very heavily. The patent bar exam will have several questions from each of the major sections of this chapter, specifically 2106 which covers patent subject matter eligibility.
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Patent Training Workshop Videos:
Video Digest:
Mindmap:
- Click on image to see full-size view or download the mindmap PDF.
- Download the PDF outline.
Objectives- Become familiar with all aspects of patentability.
- Know the following laws and rules:
35 U.S.C. 101 |
Inventions patentable. |
35 U.S.C. 102 |
Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss of right to patent. |
35 U.S.C. 103 |
Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter. |
35 U.S.C. 112 |
Specification. |
Key Terms- Best mode
- Claims
- Compositions of matter
- Conception
- Enabling disclosure
- Functional descriptive material
- Inherency
- Interference
- Inventorship
- Machines
- Manufactures
- Nonfunctional descriptive material
- Obviousness
- Offer to sell
- On sale
- Patentability
- Prima facie
- Prior art
- Processes
- Public use
- Publicly accessible
- Reduction to practice
- Specification
- Statutory bar
- Suppression and concealment
- Therapeutic utility
- Transitional phrases
- Written description
