Patentable Invention - is any technical solution to a problem in any field of human activity which is new, inventive, and useful. An Invention may relate to a product (e.g. machine, device, an article of manufacture, a composition of matter, a microorganism), process or method, (e.g. a method of use, method of manufacturing, a non-biological process, a microbiological process), computer-related inventions, and improvement of any of the foregoing.
Criteria
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New
Prior Art - Prior art is any evidence that your invention is already known to anyone. Prior art does not need to exist physically or be commercially available. It is enough that someone, somewhere, sometime previously has described or shown or made something that contains a use of technology that is very similar to your invention. (Examples: Vendo Machines; Drones; coffee maker; color and shape shorter, cooling and heating devices)
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Not Patentable
- Discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
- Schemes, rules and methods of performing mental acts, playing games or doing business,
and programs for computers;
- Methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods practiced on the human or animal body. This provision shall not apply to products and composition for use in any of these methods;
- Plant varieties or animal breeds or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals. This provision shall not apply to micro-organisms and non-biological and microbiological processes.
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- Anything which is contrary to public order or morality. (Example: Chemicals that would kill any form of human or other significant life; any tools or devices that would aid in creation of harmful bacteria or viruses; etc.)