ADMS 2610- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 61 pages long!)

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Note: what follows is in addition to the content of your text. I do not intend to get into a lengthy discussion of what can be patented under the patent. For this reason, what follows about patents will suffice for the purpose of this course. New and useful arts, processes or methods: (e. g. a system for applying a selective herbicide to improve crop yield, or a method of cleaning carpets). New and useful machines (e. g. computer hardware, a hay rake, or a vacuum cleaner). New and useful products or compositions of matter: (e. g. pharmaceuticals, chemical compounds, or micro-organisms, and. Any new and useful improvement to 1, 2 or 3. The requirement that a patent be new, means that it must be new in relation to. To invent, means to produce something that is new (in terms of time) and different and that did not exist before.