Patentable Subject Matter

patentable matter

If you are an inventor, you may have thought about protecting your inventions. But what protections are available? One form of protection is to patent your invention. A utility patent confers the rights to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing a device or invention covered by the patent into the […]

Patenting of a living organism

patentable subject matter

In 1971 a microbiologist, Ananda Chakrabarty, working in a research laboratory of General Electric, created a bacterium capable of breaking down hydrocarbon components of crude oil. The genetically-engineered micro-organism held potential for use for the bioremediation of oil spills. The following year Chakrabarty filed a patent application in the United States Patent and Trademark Office […]