Negativing Invention

JS Sherkow - BYU L. Rev., 2011 - HeinOnline
inventions created by all means to be brought before the Patent Office, famously declaring:
"Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention … of invention. This …

Interpretation of Invention

JER Hayes - J. Pat. Off. Soc'y, 1939 - HeinOnline
… How often we hear the expression in negativing invention—that is mere "change in degree;"
… under which inventions are classified, then the means employed for practicing the invention, …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy to kill Gram-negative bacteria

F F. Sperandio, YY Huang… - Recent patents on anti …, 2013 - benthamdirect.com
… In fact, the compounds presented in this invention retain advantages to antimicrobial
treatments, once they are able to inactivate antibiotic resistant bacteria such as MRSA. The …

Patent protection for CRISPR: an ELSI review

JS Sherkow - Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… ways to practice the invention that defined the application's … has been negative—and, in
particular, the negative side of … others from practicing the claimed invention. The corollary to …

François Bernier and the invention of racial classification

S Stuurman - History Workshop Journal, 2000 - academic.oup.com
… The idea of racial classification as the new foundation for a `division of the world' was ushered
in by four factors, two negative and two positive. The negative factors were, first, the loss of …

The birth of the lithium‐ion battery

A Yoshino - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… oxides containing lithium ion such as LiCoO 2 as a positive electrode and carbonaceous
materials as a negative electrode” was invented in 1985. This is the present lithium ion battery. …

Patentability of AI-generated inventions: is a reform of the patent system needed?

A Ramalho - Available at SSRN 3168703, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
… the invention possesses an “inventive step”–a condition for patentability that requires the
invention to be non-obvious to a skilled person. Indeed, a given AI-generated invention might …

Citation frequency and the value of patented inventions

D Harhoff, F Narin, FM Scherer, K Vopel - Review of Economics and …, 1999 - direct.mit.edu
… Through a survey, private economic value estimates were obtained on 964 inventions made
in the … The higher an invention's economic value estimate was, the more the patent was …

Expecting the unexpected

MA Lemley - Notre Dame L. Rev., 2016 - HeinOnline
… and testing of an invention, rather than just a new idea, as central to what makes an … ]atentability
shall not be negatived [sic] by the manner in which the invention was made" as ajustifica…

Negative refraction in semiconductor metamaterials

AJ Hoffman, L Alekseyev, SS Howard, KJ Franz… - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
… Whereas nature seems to have limits on the type of materials that exist, newly invented
metamaterials are not bound by such constraints. These newly accessible electromagnetic …