patentable
Adjective
Meaning
Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
The FTC also argued tetracycline was not patentable because of its production through fermentation. citation Pfizer was of the view that it deserved the right to a patent on tetracycline and filed its Conover application in October 1952.
The FTC had argued because tetracycline was produced through fermentation, rather than synthetically, it was not patentable, and its distribution was subject to pricing fixing challenge.
Presenting data in an efficacious manner should be patentable don't you think?
In the United States, a claim consisting solely of simple manipulations of abstract concepts, numbers, or signals does not constitute "processes" (USPTO 2006), and hence algorithms are not patentable (as in Gottschalk v. Benson ).
All of them are patentable.
It can reject the patent under existing law, preserving the law as it stands, or it can grant the patent under a new, more expansive understanding of what is patentable.