Patentable Inventions
ABOUT PATENTS PATENTABLE INVENTIONS
• A Technical Solution to a Problem • In any field of human activity • It must be NEW • It must involve an INVENTIVE STEP • It must be INDUSTRIALLY APPLICABLE | NON-PATENTABLE INVENTIONS • Discovery • Scientific theory • Mathematical methods • Scheme, rule and method of • performing mental act • playing games • doing business • program for computer • Method for treatment – human or animal body by surgery or therapy & diagnostic method • Plant variety or animal breed or essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals • Aesthetic creation • Contrary to public order or morality (Sec. 22, IP Code ) |
A Patent is a grant issued by the government through the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines). It is an exclusive right granted for a product, process or an improvement of a product or process which is new, inventive and useful. This exclusive right gives the inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the product of his invention during the life of the patent.
A patent has a term of protection of twenty (20) years providing an inventor significant commercial gain. In return, the patent owner must share the full description of the invention. This information is made available to the public in the form of the Intellectual Property Official Gazette and can be utilized as basis for future research and will in turn promote innovation and development.
Patentable inventions offer a technical solution to a problem in any field of human activity. However, theories, mathematical methods, methods of treatment and artistic creations are Non-Patentable inventions.
Statutory Classes of Invention • A useful machine • A product or composition • A method or process, or • An
• A Technical Solution to a Problem • In any field of human activity • It must be NEW • It must involve an INVENTIVE STEP • It must be INDUSTRIALLY APPLICABLE | NON-PATENTABLE INVENTIONS • Discovery • Scientific theory • Mathematical methods • Scheme, rule and method of • performing mental act • playing games • doing business • program for computer • Method for treatment – human or animal body by surgery or therapy & diagnostic method • Plant variety or animal breed or essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals • Aesthetic creation • Contrary to public order or morality (Sec. 22, IP Code ) |
A Patent is a grant issued by the government through the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines). It is an exclusive right granted for a product, process or an improvement of a product or process which is new, inventive and useful. This exclusive right gives the inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the product of his invention during the life of the patent.
A patent has a term of protection of twenty (20) years providing an inventor significant commercial gain. In return, the patent owner must share the full description of the invention. This information is made available to the public in the form of the Intellectual Property Official Gazette and can be utilized as basis for future research and will in turn promote innovation and development.
Patentable inventions offer a technical solution to a problem in any field of human activity. However, theories, mathematical methods, methods of treatment and artistic creations are Non-Patentable inventions.
Statutory Classes of Invention • A useful machine • A product or composition • A method or process, or • An