Assertion: invention | /r/HasProperty | useful
Facets:
value: for specialized tasks
type: PURPOSE
value: in a way
type: MANNER
value: to society
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: As provided by 35 U.S.C. § 101, an invention is "useful" if it provides some identifiable benefit and is capable of use.
text: Having noticed that a sharp iron needle conducted electricity away from a charged metal sphere, he theorized that such a design could be useful:
text: The utility criterion established by this case is, as Justice Joseph Story wrote in the Court's decision, that, to be patentable, an invention must be "useful" and must "not be frivolous or injurious to the well-being, good policy, or sound morals of society".
text: The patent system is designed to encourage inventions that are unique and useful to society.
text: An inventor applying for a utility patent must prove that the invention is useful.
text: Though some may argue that these inventions are useful in a way, but the bad outweighs the good easily.
text: A utility patent can only be granted for inventions that are both novel and useful; in addition, improvements to existing inventions must be also be non-obvious and substantial to be eligible for patent protection.
text: It says that no patents shall be granted for inventions which in the opinion of the Central Government are useful for or relating to the production, control, use or disposal of atomic energy or the prospecting, mining, extraction, production, physical and chemical treatment, fabrication, enrichment, canning or usefulness of any prescribed substance or radioactive substance or the ensuring of safety in atomic energy operations.
text: A model gives people a better sense of what an invention would look like and why it would be useful.
text: Such designs tend to be useful only for specialized tasks due to the large scale of program organization required to successfully utilize most of the available resources at once.