Inventions Patentable: "any new
and useful process, machine,
manufacture,
or composition of matter  . . .  or improvement thereon." 35 United States Code (USC) §101
pending: Old Fr. for 'to be decided' , meaning here that a full, 'Non-Provisional', Application for Patent has been filed with the U.S. Patent Office and will be decided upon during its Examination.
U.S. Patents, as opposed to Copyright and Trademark Registrations, are grants of
property defined in the claims of a full Application later published as the patent.
Full: vs. Provisional; Applications are examined and with Allowance result in Patent.
as seen in the PDF above, have been bureaucratized beyond belief but boil down to:

(a) identification of the 'need' that has not been met by the 'pertinent prior art';
(b) definition of how that need is met in comprehensive basic principles;
(c) detailed disclosure of how best to make and use the invention;
 (d) defining the invention claimed and shown in drawings.

Any "new and useful process, machine or manufacture ... or
improvement thereon": id est innovation meriting patent; must
be proved both novel and 'unobvious' in view of the pertinent prior
art: everything preceding in that particular field of invention; during
Examination of the Application in order to obtain Allowance of the same.

The matter is one of perspective: of recognizing the essence of the invention
in the context of what has preceded the innovation; and defining what is new in
terms providing a clear and comprehensive contrast with the pertinent prior art.
This is the burden of the Applicant: the inventor and their representative;
who must disclose fully not only the innovation claimed but also all that
is known to them to have preceded the innovation in that particular field.

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