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Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 04:54 AM EDT |
I think the law says that a specific embodiment of a technological idea is the
invention. The claims are to identify the claimed invention according to §112.
If each independent claim was an invention then there are a lot of folk
patenting an on-a-mobile-phone system and an on-a-computer invention and even an
in-a-memory invention.
The invention has to be all the claims. §101 says 'Whoever invents or discovers
any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or
any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to
the conditions and requirements of this title.'
So the law says that one patent can be obtained for one invention in one of the
patentable subject matter catagories.
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Regards
Ian Al
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