The novelty (newness) requirement means that the invention must be judged by the U.S. Patent Office to have never been made public through publication, display, or other description; never sold or offered for sale; and never used commercially. In addition, it cannot have been the subject of a patent issued elsewhere more than one year before the filing of a U.S. patent application. For researchers, the novelty requirement raises two practical issues.

Note, the information provided here are the basic concepts, however we would have look at the details of your case to provide you a patentability legal opinion. In generic terms: in determining the patentably of your your invention, the Patent Office must consider utility, novelty, obviousness, and so called "secondary considerations." Generally, if your product or process does something useful that a "close" one does not, then your product would logically be novel.

In general, to be patentable, an invention must fulfill three criteria: novelty, inventive step (or non-obviousness) and industrial applicability. This means that the invention must be new compared to the state of the art on the filing date of the application, that it should not be obvious to a person skilled in the art, in other words, it must represent a sufficient advance in relation to the sate of art, and that it should be applicable in the context of some commercial production.

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Novelty: It is new and wasn't known, sold or used by others or printed in a publication more than one year prior to the filing, however, this one year grace period does not exist internationally. Non-obviousness: The invention cannot be obvious to a person of "ordinary skill" in the art. Non-obviousness is usually demonstrated by showing that practicing the invention yields surprising and unexpected results.

Second, the invention must be new or "novel". An invention is novel as long as there is no prior patent, publication or existing product that contains all the elements of your invention, or which, if combined, as suggested by the prior art itself, make the invention obvious. Lastly, the invention must not be "obvious".

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All inventions that have commercial application can be covered by Patent - “invention means a new product or process involving an inventive step and capable of industrial application” (Section 2(1) (j).

In the language of the statute, any person who "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," subject to the conditions and requirements of the law (35 U.S.C. Sec. 101). A researcher who wonders whether an invention is patentable should treat the invention as potentially patentable and contact CCFI for advice.

While you can sell or licence an unpatented idea for an invention, potential buyers or licensees may prove reluctant to invest in your invention because of concerns that others could copy it with impunity. In general, it is easier to sell or licence your patent, because it provides a well-defined monopoly and a legal right to pursue infringers. A patent, like any other piece of property, can be sold, assigned or licensed.

Under the Patent Code there are several events that can prevent an inventor from receiving a patent on his invention. They are generally based on the principles that there can be only one true inventor and that the United States has a one year grace period from the day that the public learns of the invention. It should be noted that a patent issued anywhere to anyone, even the inventor applying in the U.S., is a printed publication which begins the clock running.