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U.S. Code Title 35, via United States Government Printing Office; U.S. Code Title 35, via Cornell University; U.S. Code Title 35, section 102, via BitLaw; Title 35 rendered in verse; The USPTO's Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, including explanations and interpretations of all of U.S. Code Title 35
Although Section 101 [3] of Title 35 U.S.C. reads: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Patentable subject matter in the United States is governed by 35 U.S.C. 101. The two particularly contentious areas, with numerous reversals of prior legislative and judicial decisions, have been computer-based and biological inventions. [9] [10] The US practice of patentable subject matter is very different from that of the European Patent Office.
Section 101 of title 35, United States Code, provides: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. [8]
As provided by 35 U.S.C. § 101, an invention is "useful" if it provides some identifiable benefit and is capable of use and "useless" otherwise. [2] The majority of inventions are usually not challenged as lacking utility, [3] but the doctrine prevents the patenting of fantastic or hypothetical devices such as perpetual motion machines. [4]
Tech billionaire Elon Musk labeled a section of President-elect Trump supporters as “contemptible fools” as the online debate around visas for highly skilled workers on the right intensifies.
Presumably, this argument results from the language in § 101 referring to any “new and useful” process, machine, etc. Section 101, however, is a general statement of the type of subject matter that is eligible for patent protection “subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.”
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