Lastly "a patentable design may consist of a new and ornamental shape given to an article of manufacture, or of an ornamentation to be placed upon an article of old shape.
A machine-made article therefore is not patentablesimply because it is thus made, and no longer by hand.
In the United States the thing patentable is a new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or new and useful improvement thereof, or new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
An art or process is patentable as well as machinery, though the inventor may not know the abstract principles involved in his art.
Even if the substituted part performs the function better, there is no patentable invention unless some new function or result is secured.
An article of manufacture is not patentablebecause means have been devised to make it more perfectly than before; it must be new in itself and not merely in its workmanship.
A given association of mechanical elements may be entirely new, but it does not follow that it forms a patentable association, for not all new things are patentable.
There is no combined result, and there is no patentable combination.
An inventor, being the first to produce a given organization, and desiring to patent it, may see at once a patentable variation on the device.
In a patentable combination the separate elements mutually act upon each other to effect a modification of their previous individual results, and secure a conjoint result greater than the sum of the individual results.
Anything under the sun made by man is patentable subject matter, and there's an end to it.
My example of mile-to-kilometer conversion would be patentable subject matter but, we hope, no patent would be granted because the algorithm is not novel and is obvious.
Was it copyrightable writing or patentable invention?
In the abstract, this is classic public domain stuff--no more patentablethan E=mc2 or F=ma.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the United States's leading patent court) seems to believe that computers can turn unpatentable ideas into patentable machines.
The line between idea or algorithm on the one hand and patentable machine on the other looks nice and easy.
Where copyright law evolved to wall off and minimize the dangers of extending protection over software, patent law actually extended the idea behind software patents to make patentable any thought process that might produce a useful result.
That is a patentable device, and it has been patented, and there is nothing original on that disk--nothing original to the company that makes that disk.
Except that the disk is a patentable thing, and on that he has a patent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patentable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
