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Ans) Phil can take patent for his invented automobile engine so that no one can copy his invented engine, but as the engine is not yet ready for disclosure or usage. He should not go for attaining patent for his product as is not ready to use or for display. Once his product is ready, he can get patent for it to stop others from distributing, selling, using or making the original product without his consent. 2.

Ans) the widespread commercial success of an invention shows that it is nonobvious because it is not even thought by any one of the viewers that this thing can be invented. The audiences gaze at the commercials of new invention as they feel excited. They wish to have that invented product and use it to fulfill their needs that were not been possible without it. 3.

Ans) In other words, for an invention to be patentable it must:

be statutory, (Statutory Requirement)

be new, (Novelty (Newness) Requirement)

be useful,( Useful Requirement)

be nonobvious. (Nonobviousness Requirement)

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Ans) Frank should have filed a non-provisional application patent within 12 months after applying for design patent. As he got his design patent on June 1, 2004 he would get the protection of his invented design for a term of 20 years according to the U.S patent and trade mark office.5.

Ans) According to the plant patent granted by the Government, an inventor who has discovered or invented and asexually reproduced a new and diverse verity of plant, other than a corm spread plants can get patented.

Paul can go for patenting the discovered new type of sunflower if it is not already patented by someone else. If it is already patented by someone else, he won't be able to get it patented in his name. In case of his own created variety of rose flower with new and distinctive scent he can go for patenting it only if he can carry on the production of that type of roses with same quality of scent.6.

Ans) The full utility patent application identifies the signing date of the patent's application and beginning of the examination process. Your patent application will be examined by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). (Christine, 2002)

A provisional application only helps in identifying the filling date and it expires automatically just in a year. A provisional application establishes a filing date at a ...