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  2. Clean Water Act - Wikipedia

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    Current uses are identified by showing that fishing, swimming, and other water uses have occurred and are suitable since November 28, 1975. "Tier 2" requirements maintains and protects water bodies with existing conditions that are better to support "fishable/swimmable" uses pursuant to CWA section 101(a)(2).

  3. Title 35 of the United States Code - Wikipedia

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    Netscape Commc'ns Corp. v. Konrad is an example of a case that focuses on the public use and on-sale criteria of this section. This section of US code was affected by the America Invents Act (AIA). The most important part of section 102 now reads as follows: [6] (a) NOVELTY; PRIOR ART.—A person shall be entitled to a patent unless—

  4. Patentable subject matter in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The eligibility of a claimed invention under section 101 shall be determined without regard to: the manner in which the claimed invention was made; whether individual limitations of a claim are well known, conventional or routine; the state of the art at the time of the invention; or any other considerations relating to sections 102, 103, or ...

  5. United States patent law - Wikipedia

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    The "patentability" of inventions (defining the types things that qualify for patent protection) is defined under Sections 100–105. Most notably, section 101 [9] sets out "subject matter" that can be patented; section 102 [10] defines "novelty" and "statutory bars" to patent protection; section 103 [11] requires that an invention to be "non ...

  6. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

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    Section 101(d) provides that if a law requires that a business retain a record of a transaction, the business satisfies the requirement by retaining an electronic record, as long as the record 1) "accurately reflects" the substance of the original record in an unalterable format, 2) is "accessible" to people who are entitled to access it, 3) is ...

  7. Utility (patentability requirement) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Software patents under United States patent law - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 - Wikipedia

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    § 5121. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND DECLARATIONS {Sec. 101} a) The Congress hereby finds and declares that-- . because disasters often cause loss of life, human suffering, loss of income, and property loss and damage; and