There are many inventors of every day, extraordinary things to invent and improve our daily lives. To alleviate some of inventing medical instruments to daily physical stress. Others invent new forms of communication, either through mobile phones and sites like Twitter. And other inventions of tripping accidents like Charles Goodyear, who happens to be the process of vulcanization, discovered accidentally drop raw rubber on a hot metal surface.
Many inventors do not have scientific trainingand often their inventions of common sense. The need for a widget that x and y, in order to build a new widget with the same elements of X and Y, which must always resolved. For example, if someone needs a laser pointer and a pen, but do not want to wear both in his pocket, would only produce a container with the pin on one side and the laser pointer on the other.
Now, even though many of these inventions can be very useful andnegotiable, are not necessarily patentable. Thus, an invention is patentable, it must be in its own way. But more importantly, it must be so new that it is not clear, there is in relation to other products known to do. In patent law, this means that it is a "non-obviousness'.
Non-obviousness, which is defined by the United States Patent and Trademark Office basically means that an inventor in a particular area, it would not be as healthy as the human mind, or invent coursethis product. For example, suppose you have a chair that has a cushion to sit on. And it turns out that he threw a good idea, a certain type of cotton, foam or materials on the chair, so you can sit there comfortably. Now, we assume that there are no chairs in the outside world with a seat cushion. The concept of non-obviousness would be to ask if a person who makes or sells chairs for a life that is added as an "duh" to a pillow on the chair to do itmore comfortable. If there is a sort of invention, and if anyone in the industry I would not say "duh", then the object is patentable.
You should remember that, is to determine obviousness or non-obviousness, there really is no exact formula or metric is to give an indication of the solid line where it is. And remember that there is nothing on the old urban myth that if you change only one product is 5% -20% or whatever the number, thennot obvious. Like beauty, is proof in the eyes of the beholder. For some inventions, if you ask 100 different patent attorneys, if a product can be obvious or not, you will get about 100 responses were different. And it gets even more colorful opinions when you are dealing with the examiner at the USPTO.
You should also know that the patent-ability of a product is not necessarily related to its value. We remember some years ago that Apple, Inc., a patent was deniedApplication on your i-phone, perhaps one of the curves technologies or devices for the past ten years. Instead, you can also get a boat load of ridiculous patents granted with no value.
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