...Application? The short answer is "anyone." According to the patent statute (35 USC § 1), "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture,...and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefore." Thus, any person who is the true inventor, regardless of race, creed, color, or even national...

...the categories into which inventions must fall to qualify for patent protection: "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture...any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent."10 The categories include a new use of a known process, machine, manufacture, composition of...

...of the Scope of Patentable Subject Matter Section 101 of the Patent Act states, ''Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture,...any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent."49 The US Supreme Court has interpreted this statute broadly to hold that both man-made, living...

...(patents)', available online at www.wipo.intlabout-ip/en/patents.html US law. for example, recognises that '[a]ny new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new or useful improvement thereof may be patented (35 USC § l0l). Without defining what is meant...

...to inventions having a new utilitarian aspect. Inventions protected by utility patents may concern any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. In contrast, design patents concern new external ornamental...

...rather different trajectory than that in the EU. By virtue of 15 USC §101, patents are available for 'any new and useful process, machine manufacture, or composition of matter or any new and useful improvement thereof. Historically this has not meant, however, that patents were...

...(1995): 1126. 11. United States Code, Title 35, sections 101-103. The law defines what can be patented as "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof." 12. Editorial, "Yes, Patent Life," New York Times, April 21,...

...Public Domain and Intertextuality Intertwined," /. Intell. Prop. L. 10 (2002), p. 1. "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture,...improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title." 35 USC § 101 (2000). See Funk Bros. Seed...

...with "process."9 Here is the current form: 35 USC §101. - Inventions patentable Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture,...improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. The code now includes a bit more detail about...

...useful procedures for obtaining desirable tax results. Under the Patent Act, any person who "invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture,...useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent," subject to the conditions and requirements of the law. 35 USC § 101. Advances falling within this...