In United States patent law, utility is a patentability requirement. As provided by 35 U.S.C. § 101, an invention is "useful" if it provides some identifiable...

Robert Hays Utility (patentability requirement), one of the requirements for patentability in Canadian and United States patent laws Utility (car), a term...

the "best mode requirement". Judging patentability is one aspect of the official examination of a patent application performed by a patent examiner and...

jurisdictions' patent law, industrial applicability or industrial application is a patentability requirement according to which a patent can only be granted...

patentability requirements. In some countries, it is only available for inventions in certain fields of technology and/or only for products. Utility models...

particular subject matter is patentable is one of the substantive requirements for patentability. The problem of patentable subject matter arises usually...

inventive step and non-obviousness reflect a general patentability requirement present in most patent laws, according to which an invention should be sufficiently...

Sufficiency of disclosure or enablement is a patent law requirement that a patent application disclose a claimed invention in sufficient detail so that...

are excluded from patentability, thus European Patent Office policy is consequently that a program for a computer is not patentable if it does not have...

grant a patent or reject the patent application based on whether the application fulfils the requirements for patentability." For a list of patent offices...

respective writings and discoveries; . The "patentability" of inventions (defining the types things that qualify for patent protection) is defined under Sections...

filed, a patent application is "prosecuted". A patent examiner reviews the patent application to determine if it meets the patentability requirements of that...

field, patent laws have restrictions on the areas in which patents can be granted. Such restrictions are known as exclusions from patentability. The scope...

of patent applications, responding to patent office actions, and navigating the examination process to meet all legal requirements for patentability. This...

Novelty is one of the patentability requirement for a patent claim, whose purpose is to prevent issuing patents on known things, i.e. to prevent public...

business method patents. There is no general prohibition on the patentability of business methods in Australia. Their patentability is determined by...

Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...

office in each country or region and may be subject to different patentability requirements. Typically, a party (other than the patentee or licensee of the...

state of the art or background art) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular whether an invention...

"Reduction to Practice" [R-5] - 2100 Patentability Lo and Sutthiphisal: "Does it Matter Who Has the Right to Patent: First-to-Invent or First-to-File? Lessons...

of invention under the European Patent Convention. A patentability requirement mainly used to prevent the patenting of inoperative devices such as perpetual...

the requirements may vary depending on the jurisdiction. Under the European Patent Convention, Article 78(1) EPC provides that a European patent application...

requirement to publish a description of the invention. Actual use of the invention was deemed adequate disclosure to the public. The English patent system...

For a patent to be valid in Canada, the invention claimed therein needs to be new and inventive. In patent law, these requirements are known as novelty...

A utility pole, commonly referred to as a transmission pole, telephone pole, telecommunication pole, power pole, hydro pole, telegraph pole, or telegraph...

examination of the patentability of the application in view of the prior art is performed, the USPTO fee for filing a provisional patent application is significantly...

US utility patents protect the functionality of a given item, i.e., how a product works. Providing the maintenance fees are paid, utility patents are...

In most patent laws, unity of invention is a formal administrative requirement that must be met for a patent application to proceed to grant. An issued...

European Patent Office's Board of Appeal 3.4.01 held in its decision T 533/09 that the European Patent Convention did not as such exclude the patentability of...

it complies with the legal requirements for granting of a patent. A claimed invention must meet patentability requirements of novelty, inventive step...