An inventor is one who formulates and describes the means of making the thing ultimately invented.Ī person will not be considered an inventor, if he or she merely: Each person who makes an original and substantive contribution to conceiving the thing ultimately invented or one of its essential elements is legally entitled to be named as an inventor. The conception (idea) stage is complete when there is definite and permanent idea of an operative invention that could be described to a person of ordinary skill in the art who could then construct or use the invention without extensive further research or experimentation.įor the purpose of determining who is an inventor, only a person's role in the conception (idea) stage is considered. Then the idea is reduced into practice by testing and ultimately making or translating the idea into a physical and useful form.
An invention begins with an idea - "conception" of the thing or subject matter that is ultimately created and the complete means of creating it. The act of inventing involves two stages: (i) conception and (ii) reduction to practice. An invention is "any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter." An invention or discovery includes data bases, audio-visual and computer material or equivalent circuitry, biotechnology and genetic engineering products and all other products of research that may be licensable: University Policy #88 - Inventions and Discoveries.
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