Patents
Eligible property -- … any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof… (applied technology)
Eligibility tests
- Novelty -- new relative to “prior art”
- Originality -- applicant must be actual inventor
- Utility -- be useful for something
- Nonobviousness -- invention cannot be obvious to someone with ordinary skill in the area and access to all existing prior art
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