It doesn't commit you to a formal patent application, and doesn't result in a patent, but it does allow you to
claim your invention so that you can do a full patent application later.
Not exact matches
Given the similarities between the Canadian Patent Act and its U.S. counterpart for the definition of «
invention», the Canadian Patent Office has for many years granted
claims like Myriad's to isolated gene sequences and continues to do
so.
Although not obligated to do
so, the patentee can contractually agree to permit another to practice the
claimed invention, via a licensing agreement.
N.A.D.s is not even an acronym of my
invention,
so I'm not going to try and
claim to you that I came up with it, or what it stands -LSB-...]
Their
claim is «This ingenious
invention let's you Fill & Tie 100 water balloons in under 60 seconds
so you no longer have to put up with tedious tying one by one!»
So the fact that a patented
invention or an application may not pass the broadest reasonable expedient does not mean that the inventor has not
claimed a patentable
invention.
One of the biggest advantages of starting with a provisional application is that it is easier and cheaper to file than a non-provisional application,
so you can stake your
claim to your
invention quicker.
Introducing his Bill, Straw said: «Often such
claims are for whiplash, which is not
so much an injury, more a profitable
invention of the human imagination — undiagnosable except by third - rate doctors in the pay of the
claims management companies or personal injury lawyers.
A patentee is able to clarify the definition of his
invention and how to make it,
so the person skilled in the art can make it successfully, by narrowing its
claims (and arguably selecting its best compounds from the thousands it may have initially started with at filing).
In their appeal, AlphaCap Ventures» attorneys argue that the law of patent eligibility — particularly the law regarding when a
claimed invention is an abstract idea and thus ineligible for patent protection — is
so unsettled that a court should never award fees when a party loses on the issue.