 | United States. Patent Office - Patent laws and legislation - 1965 - 184 pages
...Commissioner deems sufficient, and on compliance with such regulations as he prescribes. 35 U.8.C. 101. Inventions patentable. Whoever invents or discovers...any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or compostion of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Astronautics - 1966 - 46 pages
...performance of work under a NASA contract. • For purposes of the Clause, an invention is defined as any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in a process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. "Processes"... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Government Operations - 1967 - 406 pages
...limited. The patent statute in 35 USC 101 broadly defines those inventions which are patentable as "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter or any new or useful improvement thereof." The term "process" under 35 USC 100(b), in turn, is defined... | |
 | Robert F. Weir, Robert S. Olick - Medical - 2004 - 358 pages
...in the area of "gene patenting." Under US patent law (we will not discuss international patent law), "[w]hoever invents or discovers any new and useful...and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent [on the invention or discovery].""6 The holder of a patent enjoys "the right to exclude others from... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Business & Economics - 2004 - 392 pages
...US Code. With respect to the first statutory requirement, 35 USC § 101 states that any person who "invents or discovers any new and useful process,...and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent. . ." subject to the conditions and requirements of the law. Thus, the threshold inquiry as to whether... | |
 | Patrick Kangas - Nature - 2003 - 469 pages
...of other inventions. According to the legal statute, any person who "invents or discovers any new or useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition...useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent." An invention must exhibit three qualities to be patentable: novelty, utility, and nonobviousness. Descriptions... | |
 | Sheldon Krimsky - Medical - 2003 - 280 pages
...science and biotechnology. According to the US Patent Act (35 USC 101), a patent may be awarded to "whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof." Throughout this period, the patent laws and their interpretation... | |
 | 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... | |
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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, subiect to the conditions and requirements of this title. 
