Explore: Invention (international Law)

Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention, also called Strasbourg Convention or Strasbourg Patent Convention

The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (Pub. L. 82–256, 66 Stat. 3, enacted February 1, 1952, codified at 35 U.S.C. ch. 17) is a United States federal law that

of disclosure or enablement is a patent law requirement that a patent application disclose a claimed invention in sufficient detail so that the person

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea, or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process

to harmonise national patent laws and practices concerning the granting of patents for computer-implemented inventions, provided they meet certain criteria

and Trademark Law Amendments Act (Pub. L. 96-517, December 12, 1980) is U.S. legislation permitting ownership by contractors of inventions arising from

Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) is a proposed international patent law treaty aimed at harmonizing substantive points of patent law. In contrast with

given invention lies with the first person to file a patent application for protection of that invention, regardless of the date of the actual invention. The

distinguished from other inventions." 1836 – Third Patent Act re-introduced examination, recommended the use of patent claims. Subsequent case law developed rudimentary

it does so, I suggest, because it is the inevitable corollary of that invention of modernity: accountability.[full citation needed] In a 1997 paper on