{"id":5791,"date":"2013-07-10T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/?page_id=5791"},"modified":"2014-06-24T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T23:35:42","slug":"patenting-quick-facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/for-researchers\/navigate-ip\/patenting-quick-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Patenting Quick Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Patenting Quick Facts<\/h1>\n<p>You can possibly obtain a US patent if your invention is:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"facts-list\">\n<li><strong>new<\/strong> and useful<\/li>\n<li><strong>non-obvious<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>a process or a <strong>thing<\/strong><sup>1<\/sup>, or an improvement thereof<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>New<\/strong> means the invention was <strong>not<\/strong> (a) patented or (b) published or (c) in public use<sup>2<\/sup> or (d) on sale<sup>2<\/sup>, (e) more than <strong>1 year<\/strong> prior to the filing date of the patent application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious<\/strong> means that a person having ordinary skill in the art, at the time the invention was made or conceived, would likely not have made or conceived the invention.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-block clearfix\"><span class=\"pagecurl\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"img58\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img58.jpeg\" width=\"231\" height=\"231\" \/>C4C staff can advise on IP protection best practices and law, set patent strategy, and retain counsel.<\/div>\n<h3>\u00a0Important Dates to Track:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li><strong>Public disclosure or offer for sale<\/strong> \u2014 the date when you first presented, published, or otherwise publicly disclosed your invention or offered your invention for sale. Please contact UW C4C before making a public disclosure<sup>3<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conception date<\/strong> \u2014 the date that you knew your invention would solve the problem.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduction to practice<\/strong> \u2014 the date your conception manifested itself as a process or a thing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diligence in reduction to practice<\/strong> \u2014 dated portions of the notebook showing your intent and conscious effort to reduce the invention to practice. Since you may still be diligent despite periods of not working on reducing your invention to practice, remember to provide reasonable explanations for these periods of time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"border-top: 1px solid #9B9C9C; padding-top: 10px;\">\n<p><sup>1 Machine, composition of matter, or manufacturable article<\/sup><br \/>\n<sup>2 Occurred in the USA<br \/>\n<\/sup><sup>3 If a public disclosure has been made, it may still be possible to secure patent protection if the public disclosure was no more than one year ago. When in doubt, ask UW C4C whether we should file an \u201cemergency\u201d provisional patent application to preserve patent rights.<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patenting Quick Facts You can possibly obtain a US patent if your invention is: new and useful non-obvious a process or a thing1, or an improvement thereof New means the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":62,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5791","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5791\/revisions\/6146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}