Complex sentence: To qualify for a U.S. Patent, an invention must be new, novel, useful and non-obvious, so before prosecuting a patent application, a company needs to determine if an invention is really new and novel.
Split into simpler sentences: To qualify for a U.S. Patent, an invention must be new, novel, useful and non-obvious. Before prosecuting a patent application, a company needs to determine if an invention is really new and novel.