 A patent may be granted to the inventor or discoverer of any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or on any distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber-propagated...  The Inventive Thinking Curriculum Project - Page 55by Canedo, Marion, Marion Canedo - 1989 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1955 - 356 pages
...One purpose Congress had in mind in the enactment of the statute authorizing the grant of a patent on any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture was to enhance the salability of such articles in competitive markets through an aesthetic appeal to... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Patent laws and legislation - 1956 - 56 pages
...distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber-propagated plant, which is asexually reproduced, or on any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. Q. On what subject matter may a patent not be granted? A. A patent may not be granted on a useless... | |
 | United States. President's Commission on the Patent System - Patent practice - 1966 - 80 pages
...matter cannot readily be examined for adherence to these criteria. 1. Designs: A patent now may be granted on any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. Despite the statutory requirement of unobviousness, patents on designs are now granted, in effect,... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - Customs administration - 1953 - 366 pages
...One purpose Congress had in mind in the enactment of the statute authorizing the grant of a patent on any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture was to enhance the salability of such articles in competitive markets through an aesthetic appeal to... | |
 | Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1963 - 506 pages
...distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber propagated plant, which is asexually reproduced, or on any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. It may not be granted on printed matter, a method of doing business, an improvement which is only the... | |
 | Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Heitman, Stanley Joel Reiser - Medical - 2002 - 392 pages
...patent may also be granted on any distinct and new variety of asexually reproduced plant (35 USC 161) or on any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture (35 USC 171). The first patent act was enacted by Congress in 1 790. providing protection for "any... | |
 | Howard B. Rockman - Law - 2004 - 542 pages
...are material differences between them. A design patent, according to 35 USC ยง171, may be obtained on any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. The article must provide an aesthetically pleasing appearance to the eye of the beholder, and the design... | |
 | 1989 - 196 pages
...(35 USC 101). A patent may also be granted on any distinct and new variety of plant (35 USC 161) or on any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture (35 USC 171). The first patent act was enacted by Congress in 1790. It embodied Thomas Jefferson's... | |
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