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What is Intellectual Property?

Intellectual Property is a commercially valuable product of human intellect in a concrete or abstract form that is a copyrightable work, a protectable trademark, a patentable invention or a trade secret.

What is a Patent?

A United States Patent is a grant of a property right by the United States Government (through the United States Patent and Trademark Office) to the inventor "to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention."

Note: A patent DOES NOT necessarily grant the inventor the right to make, use, offer for sale, or sell the invention.

What is Patentable?

Four Criteria for a patent to be issued in the United States

• Usefulness - An invention must be useful.

• Novelty - An invention must be new; i.e. new use, new material, new method of manufacture, etc.

• Obviousness - An invention must not be obvious to "one skilled in the art."

• Enablement - The written description of the invention must enable "one skilled in the art" to duplicate the invention and obtain the same or substantially similar results.

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Patenting at OMRF

Licensing Process

Consulting by OMRF Employees

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