Patentability

Patentability


Patent law
(patents for inventions)
Overviews
  • Patents
  • History
  • Economics
  • Societal views
Basic concepts
  • Application
  • Prosecution
  • Licensing
  • Infringement
Patentability
  • Patentable subject matter
  • Novelty
  • Utility
  • Inventive step and non-obviousness
  • Industrial applicability
  • Person skilled in the art
  • Prior art
  • Inventorship
Additional requirements
  • Sufficiency of disclosure
  • Unity of invention
By region / country
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty
  • Europe
  • Japan
  • Canada
  • United States
  • Australia
  • China
Subject-matter
  • Biological patent
  • Gene patent
  • Business method
  • Tax patent
  • Chemical patent
  • Software patent
See also
  • Category
  • Glossary

Within the context of a national or multilateral body of law, an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive conditions that must be met for a patent to be held valid.

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