This policy supercedes the Policy on Copyrighted Material and the Policy on Patents of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, dated October 1997, and the Patent Policy of North Shore University Hospital, dated October 1997. Any process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or design, or any new or useful improvement thereof, and any variety of plant or animal which is, or may be, patentable under the Patent Laws of the United States or other jurisdiction such as the EPO or other Country. To be patentable, an invention must be novel, useful, and non-obvious. Protection by law that covers books, periodicals, lectures, dramatic or dramatic-musical compositions, maps, works of art, drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical nature, computer programs, software and other electronic media, photographs, pictorial illustrations, labels, motion pictures and video tapes, and audio recordings. The elements of inventorship are conception and reduction to practice.
Conception is defined as the completion of the intellectual part of an invention.
Reduction to practice has to be completed personally by the inventor or someone under the inventor's direction. The reduction to practice may be actual or constructive. Constructive reduction to practice requires completion and filing of a patent application that completely describes how to make the invention and is considered equivalent to an actual reduction to practice.