Nanotechnology Gets a Category in the USPTO
Posted by Douglas Sorocco, October 26, 2004 at 6:50 am
According to IP News Blog:
Last Monday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced a new registration category specifically for nanotechnology inventions.
The patent office's criteria for this category is that at least one dimension of an invention be less than 100 nanometers and the nanoscale property of this invention must be essential to the novelty of it.
The decision to set up this new category is an indicator that many nanotechnology inventions are headed into the patent office. As a result, the patent office is currently training its examiners in nanotechnology and has set up outside experts to give advice.