| WHAT IS AN INVENTION?
A broad definition of an invention is "anything that is new".
A patentable invention, however, is "the discovery or creation of
a new material, a new process, a new use for an existing material, or
any improvement of any of these". The inventive process consists
of two steps: conception (mental formulation of the complete means by
which a desired result is achieved) and reduction to practice (physically
constructing and/or carrying out the mental formulation and testing to
demonstrate the invention achieves the desired results). |