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Title 35 of the United States Code
Title 35 of the United States Code is a title of United States Code regarding patent law. The sections of Title 35 govern all aspects of patent law in the United States. There are currently 37 chapters, which include 376 sections (149 of which are used), in Title 35.
Federally recognized forms of intellectual property are scattered throughout the United States Code. Copyrights are covered under Title 17. Trademark and unfair competition law is defined in Chapter 22 of Title 15. Trade Secrets law, another form of intellectual property, is defined in Title 18.
Title 35 has four parts, which are delved into further later in the article:
Sections 1 through 42 establish the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The USPTO is responsible for granting and issuing patents and registering trademarks.
An invention must meet several requirements to be eligible for a patent. The invention must concern patentable subject matter. The invention must be novel and the application for a patent on the invention must be timely. The invention must be non-obvious. Finally, the invention must be sufficiently documented.
This may seem expansive, but there are limits to section 101 as outlined in the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. Inventions/discoveries can only be patented once, that is double patenting is prohibited. Only the inventor may be listed as the applicant for a patent. The invention must have a use or utility that "is specific, substantial and credible". There are also limitations on the subject matter that can be patented, it must fall in the four categories of section 101: process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, and secondly that it "must qualify as patent-eligible subject matter". The idea of "patent-eligible subject matter" is to prevent abstract ideas, scientific laws, and natural phenomena i.e. chemical compounds, from being patented. The scope of patentable inventions was limited further by the Atomic Energy Act, and so "No patent shall hereafter be granted for any invention or discovery which is useful solely in the utilization of special nuclear material or atomic energy in an atomic weapon."
Section 102 describes some of the conditions when a patent should not be granted to an inventor based on the concept of novelty. These conditions generally relate to when an invention is already known publicly. Each subsection of section 102 describes a different kind of prior art which can be used as evidence that an invention is already public. This includes inventions that have already been described in other patent applications or publications. It also includes inventions that have been on sale for more than a year before a patent application was filed. Netscape Commc'ns Corp. v. Konrad is an example of a case that focuses on the public use and on-sale criteria of this section.
This section of US code was affected by the America Invents Act (AIA). The most important part of section 102 now reads as follows:
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Title 35 of the United States Code
Title 35 of the United States Code is a title of United States Code regarding patent law. The sections of Title 35 govern all aspects of patent law in the United States. There are currently 37 chapters, which include 376 sections (149 of which are used), in Title 35.
Federally recognized forms of intellectual property are scattered throughout the United States Code. Copyrights are covered under Title 17. Trademark and unfair competition law is defined in Chapter 22 of Title 15. Trade Secrets law, another form of intellectual property, is defined in Title 18.
Title 35 has four parts, which are delved into further later in the article:
Sections 1 through 42 establish the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The USPTO is responsible for granting and issuing patents and registering trademarks.
An invention must meet several requirements to be eligible for a patent. The invention must concern patentable subject matter. The invention must be novel and the application for a patent on the invention must be timely. The invention must be non-obvious. Finally, the invention must be sufficiently documented.
This may seem expansive, but there are limits to section 101 as outlined in the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. Inventions/discoveries can only be patented once, that is double patenting is prohibited. Only the inventor may be listed as the applicant for a patent. The invention must have a use or utility that "is specific, substantial and credible". There are also limitations on the subject matter that can be patented, it must fall in the four categories of section 101: process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, and secondly that it "must qualify as patent-eligible subject matter". The idea of "patent-eligible subject matter" is to prevent abstract ideas, scientific laws, and natural phenomena i.e. chemical compounds, from being patented. The scope of patentable inventions was limited further by the Atomic Energy Act, and so "No patent shall hereafter be granted for any invention or discovery which is useful solely in the utilization of special nuclear material or atomic energy in an atomic weapon."
Section 102 describes some of the conditions when a patent should not be granted to an inventor based on the concept of novelty. These conditions generally relate to when an invention is already known publicly. Each subsection of section 102 describes a different kind of prior art which can be used as evidence that an invention is already public. This includes inventions that have already been described in other patent applications or publications. It also includes inventions that have been on sale for more than a year before a patent application was filed. Netscape Commc'ns Corp. v. Konrad is an example of a case that focuses on the public use and on-sale criteria of this section.
This section of US code was affected by the America Invents Act (AIA). The most important part of section 102 now reads as follows: