Florida Patent Attorneys & IP Lawyers : Florida Intellectual Property Law Blog

There are four statutory classes of patents under U.S. patent law: (1) Machine (any device or apparatus); (2) Manufacture (a manufactured article); (3) Composition (combination of ingredients such as chemicals, and (4) Process (method of doing something) Now lets turn to the requirements for patentability. An invention must be useful, novel, and non-obvious in order to be patentable. Additionally, it must be adequately described in a patent application and this standard is addressed in my posting entitled “Adequately Disclosing Your Invention in the Patent Application“. useful: In short, this means that your invention should work. This is fairly simple-your invention cannot be inoperable. Novel: In order for an invention to be novel, it must be new as defined in the patent law. This means that the same invention has not been known or descr

In the famous words of Abraham Lincoln, “the patent system added the fuel of interest to the fire of ingenuity”. The founding fathers of our country chose to provide every citizen the incentive to create and invent. A patent is a right, granted by the United States to an inventor, to exclude others from making, using, selling and even importing an invention into the United States without his or her permission. In its simplest form, it is a monopoly granted by the United States to an inventor to enable the inventor to exploit his or her creativity. By providing an inventor with the security that he will enjoy the fruits of his hard work and ingenuity, patents encourage innovation. They were right to place great confidence in the inspired ordinary citizen. Today, the United States comprises only about 4% of the world’s population, yet