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* Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.  

* Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.  

To be the subject of a U.S. utility patent, an invention must be new, useful, and non-obvious.  Obviousness is determined from the standpoint of a person having ordinary skill in the art who had [[hindsight|no knowledge of the invention itself]].  Other countries typically require novelty, inventive step (in practice the same things as non-obviousness), and industrial applicability (a somewhat more stringent standard than utility).  They may also exclude certain categories of inventions patentable in the United States, such as methods of diagnosis or treatment performed on a human or animal body and computer-implemented business methods.

To be the subject of a U.S. utility patent, an invention must be new, useful, and non-obvious.  Obviousness is determined from the standpoint of a person having ordinary skill in the art who had [[hindsight|no knowledge of the invention itself]].  Other countries typically require novelty, inventive step (in practice the same thing as non-obviousness), and industrial applicability (a somewhat more stringent standard than utility).  They may also exclude certain categories of inventions patentable in the United States, such as methods of diagnosis or treatment performed on a human or animal body and computer-implemented business methods.

== Patent Term ==

== Patent Term ==