MOPOP - Chapter 12 - Table of Contents

Subject-Matter and Utility
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Subject-Matter and Utility

• 12.01

  Scope of this chapter
• 12.02

  Statutory subject-matter
  • 12.02.01

    Art
  • 12.02.02

    Process
  • 12.02.03

    Machine
  • 12.02.04

    Manufacture
  • 12.02.05

    Composition of matter
• 12.03

  Inventions must take a practical form
  • 12.03.01

    Ideas are not inventions
  • 12.03.02

    Claiming a practical form
• 12.04

  Inventions must relate to fields of technology
  • 12.04.01

    Relationship of claimed matter to a field of technology
  • 12.04.02

    Guidance on non-technological fields
• 12.05

  Excluded subject-matter
  • 12.05.01

    Scientific principles and abstract theorems
  • 12.05.02

    Methods of medical treatment or surgery
  • 12.05.03

    Higher life forms
  • 12.05.04

    Forms of energy
• 12.06

  Guidance on certain subject-matter
  • 12.06.01

    Features of solely intellectual or esthetic significance
  • 12.06.02

    Schemes, plans, rules and mental processes
  • 12.06.03

    Fine arts
  • 12.06.04

    Printed matter
  • 12.06.05

    Games
  • 12.06.06

    Computer-related inventions
    • 12.06.06a

      Computer-related method claims
    • 12.06.06b

      Computer-related device claims
  • 12.06.07

    Carrier substrates and storage media
  • 12.06.08

    New uses
    • 12.06.08a

      Uses of novel and inventive means
    • 12.06.08b

      Uses to achieve non-analogous results
    • 12.06.08c

      Uses to achieve analogous results
    • 12.06.08d

      Medical uses
    • 12.06.08e

      Uses of methods
• 12.07

  Office actions on subject-matter
• 12.08

  Utility
  • 12.08.01

    Operability
  • 12.08.02

    Controllability and reproducibility
  • 12.08.03

    Establishing utility
  • 12.08.04

    Sound prediction
    • 12.08.04a

      Factual basis
    • 12.08.04b

      Sound line of reasoning
    • 12.08.04c

      Proper disclosure
  • 12.08.05

    Relevant date
  • 12.08.06

    Sufficiency of the description
• 12.09

  Office actions on utility
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  Endnotes