...performance of work under a NASA contract. • For purposes of the Clause, an invention is defined as any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in a process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. "Processes"...

...limited. The patent statute in 35 USC 101 broadly defines those inventions which are patentable as "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter or any new or useful improvement thereof." The term "process" under 35 USC 100(b), in turn, is defined...

...industry, or research. (i) The term "inventor" means the originator of the claimed invention. Section 101 Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or compsltion of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or his successor in title, may obtain...

...title 1, United States Code and the United States. "§ 101. Right to patent; inventions patentable "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or his successor in title, may obtain a patent therefor, subject...

...utility in agriculture, commerce, industry, health or research. Section 101. — Inventions patentable Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or his successor in title, may obtain a patent therefor, subject...

...years from the date that the application for patent was first filed. The US Patent Act provides that 'whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor'.6 The justification for the issuance of patents is to promote the progress of science and...

...agreement between the United States and the state of registry. 35 USC § 105. Inventions Patentable: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process,...and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefore, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. 35 USC § 101. See Composition...

...in the area of "gene patenting." Under US patent law (we will not discuss international patent law), "[w]hoever invents or discovers any new and useful...and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent [on the invention or discovery].""6 The holder of a patent enjoys "the right to exclude others from...

...US Code. With respect to the first statutory requirement, 35 USC § 101 states that any person who "invents or discovers any new and useful process,...and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent. . ." subject to the conditions and requirements of the law. Thus, the threshold inquiry as to whether...

...of other inventions. According to the legal statute, any person who "invents or discovers any new or useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition...useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent." An invention must exhibit three qualities to be patentable: novelty, utility, and nonobviousness. Descriptions...