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Not everything that a science genius or computer whiz can be patented.

Can the USPTO patent a newly discovered plant, insect or animal? Did Einstein get a patent for his formula E = MC2, and Newton fot his Law of gravity?

Some topics are not protected by patent. It includes mental processes, physical phenomena, abstract ideas, and the nature of laws.  This also includes those characteristics of nature that is not confined to one person because it is free for all. Laws of nature and abstract ideas are reserved for the public domain. Artistic, musical, dramatic, literary or is entitled to copyright protection.

There are also inventions that are offensive and are not useful; these are not patented.

What is a patent?

A patent is another form of IP (intellectual property). In the United States, a patent is granted by the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) to the inventors. The issuance of patent helps prevent others from using, manufacturing, sale, importation, sale or offering of this invention during a period of time. The Patent Act, 35 USC  contains details on the use of jargons to resolve the confusion and complexity in patenting. This is according to the Law on the United States Patent.

John Loggie Baird was a British engineer who in 1924 first demonstrated a television image and first demonstrated objects in motion on television in 1926. He was able to do this using a mechanical scanning system.

Voila! There’s an image seen on our television sets.

In 1931, an American inventor named Chester Floyd Carlson produced the first xerographic image which was the beginning of the widespread use of xerography in copying documents.

“Phone” means sound. Many words were combined with “phone” to make up new words in the English dictionary. Examples of these “phone” words are telephone, megaphone, gramophone, cellular phone, and many others.

Maybe the genius of all sounds is Alexander Graham Bell. He is a renowned American inventor of the telephone in 1876. But he didn’t only invent the telephone but also the photophone in 1880 and the graphophone in 1887. The photophone is a device that transmitted sound on a beam of light. This was used by Bell on June 3, 1880 when he transmitted the first wireless telephone message. The graphophone which was an improved version of the phonograph was invented through the laboratories of Alexander Graham Bell.

The first lie detector was invented in 1921 by John A. Larson of the United States of America.

A Canadian physiologist, together with Charles H. Best, prepared the first insulin that treated diabetes. His name is Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941).

Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt, a German astronomer, introduced the use of a specially designed plate in astronomical telescope. Using this plate will eliminate any spherical aberration. The devise was called the Schmidt telescope and can be used to photograph wide angular fields using a curved photographic plate. It is fascinating to know that even with the loss of his right hand in a childhood accident, Schmidt was still the foremost grinder of astronomical mirrors during his time.

If you are looking for shirts that do not require ironing? For $ 4000.00, you can buy a shirt treated titanium alloy and nylon fibers intertwined.

If you are suffering from persistent back pain, there is a  new invention, based on data from the makers of SynchroMed. It is an infusion system that works better and requires much lower doses than intravenous methods. It is a pump that delivers medication directly to where it may be practically effective. The new invention is coupled with the first and only implantable programmable drug pump. Morphine is packaged in a pager-sized pump and under the skin of the stomach. A minute tube or catheter attached to the pump will inject a dose of medication to the space filled with fluid surrounding the spinal cord.

These are just a few of the  hundreds of new inventions on the market.

Do you have a new invention that needs to be patented? The place to go to is USPTO, or United States Patent & Trademark Office. It is mandated by Congress to review and certify all new inventions  and is responsible for setting standards on what defines a new invention.

Even if you can not patent an idea, you can protect your invention in the beginning. Apply at the USPTO for  disclosure of a document. The date of the initial design of your invention is the receipt number that USPTO gives your document.

The document works in favor of the person who documents the invention of the date of the conceptualization. The USPTO looks to the granting of patents for the person who first thought of the idea and made a document for registration. With the document for your new invention, you are able to move towards the patentability of the invention.

A new invention is patentable if:

• The new invention is new. It must be different. It should not have never been described in a previous publication and / or publicly used or sold.
• The new invention is useful and / or utility.
• The new invention is not obvious. It should not be an extension of other inventions. Its function should not be obvious to a knowledgeable host.

If you’ve got inventions yourself, you can protect your intellectual property right by having them patented.

Thanks to French bacteriologist Leon Charles Albert Calmette and Alphonse Guerin. Because of their invaluable dedication to discover a vaccine that will cure tuberculosis, they developed the BCG vaccine that ultimately protected especially the newly born infant against tuberculosis. Nowadays, this disease isn’t as fatal as it was because of the BCG vaccine.