Patentable Subject Matter
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) operates under the US Department of Commerce subject to the laws and rules of United States Code Titles 35 and 37. The Patent Laws and Rules specify that an invention is eligible for a patent if:
	1) It is novel, new, and useful; 2) It is a process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter (NOTE: Laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas are NOT patentable); and 3) The written description of the invention, including any necessary drawings, enables one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention as claimed without undue experimentation. That is, the patent application should convey that the invention has already been successfully reduced to practice.