Just find a way to cleanly dispense the toothpaste and get all of the toothpaste out of the container to the user in a protectable, aka patentable, device. From Wordnik.com. [Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us] Reference
If you don't, the invention will no longer be patentable, meaning anyone can use it. From Wordnik.com. [How To Protect Your Invention When Pitching It] Reference
In the near past, no one considered knowledge or the fruits of creativity (art, design) as "patentable", or as someone's "property". From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property?] Reference
Was it copyrightable writing or patentable invention?. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
SOMERS: Because -- I think because it's not patentable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2005] Reference
There may be alternatives, but they are not patentable. From Wordnik.com. [SOME QUESTIONS FOR CANCER RESEARCHERS AND THE CDC, WHAT IF CANCER IS NOT A DISEASE?] Reference
Common sense and obvious ideas should not be patentable. From Wordnik.com. [Your Business Method Patent Has Just Been Invalidated] Reference
And if they're a food, they're not patentable or profitable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2003] Reference
MILES O'BRIEN: These aren't copyrightable, patentable things. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2006] Reference
If so, of course, all software processes would be patentable. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: NPEs and Abstract Patents] Reference
The big one -- the scope of patentable matter -- is yet to come. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: Patents for All: The System That Could Not Contain Itself] Reference
There is no combined result, and there is no patentable combination. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
Well, either it's a brand new invention (and thus patentable) or it's not. From Wordnik.com. [Vandana Shiva, Organicology & the Seed Wars] Reference
In the abstract, this is classic public domain stuff -- no more patentable than. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Q If there is a breakthrough development that's patentable, who owns the patent?. From Wordnik.com. [Background Briefing On Clean Car] Reference
Congress never discussed expanding the scope of patentable subject matter in 1952. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: At the Heart of the Knowledge Economy: Should Patents Be Limited To Technology?] Reference
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit declared business methods to be patentable. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Anything under the sun made by man is patentable subject matter, and there's an end to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
The test of patentable subject matter is: Does it produce a "useful, concrete, and tangible result?". From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: At the Heart of the Knowledge Economy: Should Patents Be Limited To Technology?] Reference
I want to also make it clear the statement is not about patents or what should or should not be patentable. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing On The Human Genome Project] Reference
The line between idea or algorithm on the one hand and patentable machine on the other looks nice and easy. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Maybe researchers would be interested in figuring out how to harness that effect if only it were patentable. From Wordnik.com. [Placebo Nation: Just Believe] Reference
The Supreme Court may decide that more progress would be made with narrower definitions of what is patentable. From Wordnik.com. [Why Technologists Want Fewer Patents] Reference
If the new association is a combination, it is patentable, but if it is a mere aggregation, it is unpatentable. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
U.S. patent law had drawn a firm line between patentable invention and unpatentable idea, formula, or algorithm. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
The concern is that the change in the rules over patentable subject matter, coupled with the Patent and Trademark. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
SOMERS: Because it's not patentable because it's anthroposcopic because it's -- it wasn't legal before I found it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2004] Reference
Today a bigger battle is underway in court over where to draw the line between patentable ideas and abstract ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: At the Heart of the Knowledge Economy: Should Patents Be Limited To Technology?] Reference
The mechanical details are rarely of great importance as far as the patentable features of the invention are concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Pointers for Patentees] Reference
To be patentable the invention has to apply to something having technical qualities in an engineering or scientific sense. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
But the issue here is not whether this process is new or nonobvious but whether it should be patentable in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: At the Heart of the Knowledge Economy: Should Patents Be Limited To Technology?] Reference
For many small businesses without a patentable product or service, the trademark can by the most important and valuable asset. From Wordnik.com. [Liz Hamburg: Lessons from Bikram Yoga: A Lot of Hot Air for Free] Reference
I think our position is that genes and ESTs are patentable so long as they meet the legal requirements which have been laid down. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Genome - January 1, 2000] Reference
But what I think is clear is that everybody agrees that the raw, fundamental sequence data of the human genome is not patentable. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing On The Human Genome Project] Reference
It pervades IT and, to a lesser extent, other complex technologies, but anybody can generate patentable functionality in software. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: Too Many Patents? How Patent Inflation Plagues Information Technology] Reference
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled today that business methods are not patentable unless they meet fairly narrow rules. From Wordnik.com. [Your Business Method Patent Has Just Been Invalidated] Reference
The Supreme Court last addressed abstract subject matter in 1981, since which the Federal Circuit has made virtually anything patentable. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: Too Many Patents? How Patent Inflation Plagues Information Technology] Reference
The court gave examples indicating that software would be patentable if it represented physical objects undergoing physical transformation. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: NPEs and Abstract Patents] Reference
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