M14-S2 - Session - Patents

A Patent has the following uses:

• A possibility to obstruct a competitor
• A way to make money (licensing)
• Formalization of an asset of your company
• Standardization
• PR Value

A patent is:

• Innovative
  • A technical solution for a technical problem
• New
  • Not part of the prior art
  • Patent system is intended to reward an inventor to disclose his invention to the public
  • Inventor should not be rewarded for telling us something we already new
• Inventive
  • Not obvious to a skilled person in the light of prior art
  • Skilled person? Difficult to define
• Industrially applicable
  • If it can be made or use in any kind of industry, including agriculture