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Requirements for Patentability. The five primary requirements for patentability are: (1) patentable subject matter, (2) utility, (3) novelty, (4) nonobviousness, and (5) enablement.

Essential filing papers are the specification, drawings, and claims. The filing date of the application will be the date the corrections are made. More information on application completeness can be found in the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) § 506.

Look for a patent number on the product or packaging. Many companies print patent document numbers on their products as public notification of their patent rights. Use the patent number to search and retrieve a copy of the patent from a patent database. Identify the company that makes (or made) the product.

Patent applications: the three criteria Novelty. This means that your invention must not have been made public ? not even by yourself ? before the date of the application. Inventive step. This means that your product or process must be an inventive solution. ... Industrial applicability.

The cheapest way to get "Patent Pending" status is to file a provisional patent application. All that is required is a detailed description of the invention, an informal drawing, and a synopsis of how you came up with the idea. For small entities, the application fee is $130 and for large companies it is $260.

Documents submitted (1) A patent application shall include the following documents: 1) a request for the grant of a patent; 2) the description of the invention; 3) patent claims consisting of one or several claims; 4) drawings or other illustrative material referred to in the description of the invention or patent ...