patent

1. machine or article of manufacture

1.1. article made by man

2. patent requirements

2.1. patentable subject matter

2.1.1. process

2.1.1.1. process industrial or technial

2.1.1.2. method

2.1.1.2.1. business method patent

2.1.2. composition of matter

2.1.2.1. checmical compositions

2.1.2.2. mixtures of ingredients

2.1.2.3. new chemical compounds

2.2. novel

2.2.1. not already in any prior art

2.2.1.1. New node

2.3. useful

2.4. not obvious

2.4.1. to someone in the art

3. Ain't patentable

3.1. inventions used solely in nuclear material for an atomic weapon

3.2. laws of nature

3.3. physical phenomena

3.4. abstract ideas

3.5. ideas or suggestions

4. Changes under Patent Reform Act

4.1. False Marking

4.2. Best Mode as a Defense

4.3. Joinder and Consolidation

4.4. Supplemental Exam

4.5. Reexamination

4.6. Invalidity Challenges to Financial Business Method

4.7. Foreign Prior Art

4.8. Opinion of Counsel

4.9. First to File

4.10. Tax strategies no