Patentability
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Patentability is defined by the Patent Act of 1952 to depend on three explicit requirements: "novelty and utility as articulated and defined in § 101 and § 102, and nonobviousness, the new statutory formulation, as set out in § 103." Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 12, 86 S. Ct. 684, 691 (1966).