35 USC 112, 1st paragraph (Specification)

November 28, 2007

35 USC. 112, 1st paragraph (written description, enablement and best mode requirements) – “The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such a full clear, concise, and exact terms so to enable any person skilled in the art to which it […]

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35 USC 103

November 28, 2007

“Obviousness” – Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter 35 USC 103(a) “A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject […]

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35 USC 102(g)"Prior Invention"

November 27, 2007

35 USC 102(g) “A person shall be entitled to a patent unless (g)(1)during the course of an interference conducted under section 135 or section 291, another inventor involved therein establishes, to the extent permitted in section 104, that before such person’s invention thereof the invention was made by such other inventor and not abandoned, suppressed, […]

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35 USC 102(f)"Derivation"

November 27, 2007

35 USC 102(f) “A person shall be entitled to a patent unless (f) he did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented.” Derivation requires proof that the entire invention was previously conceived by another.

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35 USC 102(e)

November 27, 2007

35 USC 102(e) – “A person shall be entitled to a patent unless (e) the invention was described in — (1) an application for patent, published under section 122(b), by another filed in the United States before the inven­tion by the applicant for patent or (2) a patent granted on an application for patent by […]

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35 USC 102(d)

November 27, 2007

  35 U.S.C. 102(d) – A person shall be entitled to a patent unless (d) the invention was first patented or caused to be patented, or was the subject of an inventor’s certificate, by the applicant or his legal representatives or assigns in a foreign country prior to the date of the application for patent […]

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