USA Patent Office is tasked with issuing patents to inventors. Patents give them the right to exclude others from making, using, selling or offering for sale the patented invention in the United States. In exchange for this grant, the inventors must disclose their invention to the public in the form of a patent application.
Most of the time, the rejections asserted by the USA Patent Office Examiner are due to the “patentability” of the invention. There are three USA Patent Office basic statutory “patentability” requirements. To be patentable, an invention must be:
1. useful
2. novel and
3. nonobvious
