MIMM 387 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Inventive Step And Non-Obviousness, Integrated Circuit, 18 Months
26 Apr 2019
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Christian cawthorn- senior partner at norton rose fulbright. Now a senior partner, specialized in intellectual property @ norton rose fulbright. Only 6x of these are codified in law- all except confidential information. A new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter or any improvement of these that is novel, non-obvious, and useful. Any person that contributes in an inventive manner to the invention. Think of it as a tradeoff with the govt. you are dealing with. There are few international treaties allowing you to group countries together. The govt. will grant you an exclusive right to use/make/sell any invention, provided you sign the patent. Requirements: novelty whether your invention is exactly disclosed in one other piece of publication. This is often an easy criteria to fulfil, because it"s relatively objective. Only over a single publication: utility this is the easiest criteria to fulfil. This can be over multiple publications that you can mosaic together to find invention.
