Patents Flashcards
3 types of patents
Utility patents, Design patents, Plant patents
______ patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
Utility
_______ patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
Design
_____ patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.
Plant
Patentable subject matter (1) process, (2) machine, (3) manufacture, or (4) composition of matter
Utility
Novelty
Nonobviousness
Enablement
Elements of Patents
Useful inventions that offer actual benefits to humans
Utility
Only new/ novel inventions are patentable
Novelty
The invention must not have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the area
Nonobviousness
The patent application must describe how to make and use the invention
Enablement
A ______ must be a (1) new, (2) useful, and (3) nonobvious process or product.
patent
A patent __________ must describe how the invention works (the “specification”), and state the “claims,” which are the actual patentable features of the invention.
application
A patentee has the exclusive right to make, use, offer to sell, or sell the invention for __ years from the date of the original patent application.
20
A patent ______ be renewed and, thus, after expiration, enters the public domain.
cannot
At the expiration of a patent, a patentee loses the _______ ______ to the patent and anyone else has the right to make, use, offer to sell, or sell the invention.
exclusive rights
