Law of Patents

Question 1

What are the requirements for getting a patent?

Answer 1

1. Patent eligible subject matter - 101
2. Useful - 101
3. Novel - 102
4. Non-Obvious - 103
5. Describe it adequately - 112

Question 2

What are the four enumerated categories you can get a patent on?

Answer 2

You can get a patent on new inventions if what you’re trying to claim is:

1. A process
2. A machine
3. An article of manufacture
4. A composition of matter

Question 3

What is the Alice-Mayo Framework?

Answer 3

1. Are you dealing with an invention that satisfies one of the four enumerated categories you can get a patent on under 101?
   If yes, Alice-Mayo Framework:
2. Are you trying to claim something that covers a judicial exception?
   If yes,
3. Are you merely trying to claim that judicial exception, or something that is substantially more?

Question 4

What are the judicial exceptions to patentability?

Answer 4

1. Abstract Idea
2. Law of Nature
3. Naturally occurring phenomenom