Intellectual Property Law

WHO IS AN INVENTOR AND WHY GETTING IT RIGHT IS IMPORTANT

By John F. Letchford

Invention involves conception of a useful idea coupled with its reduction to practice. In determining conception, more than a bare idea is required. Conception is the formation in the mind of a definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention as it is to be thereafter applied in practice. Reduction to practice is the realization of the idea through the making a of new device or product (or developing a new method of making or using something) or merely developing viable plans or formulas for doing so. In the alternative, ?constructive? reduction to practice is achieved by filing a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. (more…)

Full post as published by A & G IP on August 24, 2007 (boomark / email).