 | Nicholas P. Guehlstorf - Nature - 2004 - 216 pages
...utility patent statute 35 USC 101 provides a patent protection for a seventeen year period for "whomever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof '(Ewens, 2000. 292). Prior to the groundbreaking Chakrabarty... | |
 | Hossein Bidgoli - Business & Economics - 2004 - 984 pages
...that most people typically think of when they think of patents. Utility patents may be obtained for "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof (35 USC §101). The Plant Patent Act of 1930, now codified as... | |
 | Melvin Joseph DeGeeter - Corporations - 2004 - 726 pages
...applicable): Address City State Zip Code Work Phone: Home Phone: Facsimile: A patentable invention may be any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. Under patent law, this is also interpreted to include drugs,... | |
 | Commercial law - 2004 - 404 pages
...exceptions to the scope of patentable subject matter set forth under 35 USC §101, which provides that "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter" or any related improvement is patentable. The patent laws now unequivocally permit so-called business... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Scott - Football players - 2006 - 382 pages
...common, and Section 101 in general defines that which is eligible for a utility patent. It states: "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof may obtain a patent therefor. . . ." Many devices used in sports... | |
 | Maja Bystrom, Bruce Eisenstein - Technology & Engineering - 2005 - 302 pages
...a Patent Application? The short answer is "anyone." According to the patent statute (35 USC § 1), "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefore." Thus, any person who is the... | |
 | Keith E. Maskus, Jerome H. Reichman - Law - 2005 - 952 pages
...economically sensible"). 27 See Commission Report, above n. 4, at 1 16-17. !8 Eg, 35 USC fj 101 (2000) ("Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful...machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and... | |
 | Russell L. Parr, Gordon V. Smith - Business & Economics - 2005 - 890 pages
...respect to patents and trademarks.7 (iii) Utility Patent. Section 101 of the United States Code states, "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefore. . . ." The word "process" typically... | |
 | George P. Smith - Law - 2005 - 284 pages
...More particularly, the Court chose to tie itself to the United States Code section which provides: "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and... | |
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Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. 
