When may I not patent something?

May 16, 2008
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

If your invention is one of the following:

• A discovery
• A scientific theory
• A mathematical method
• A literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation
• A scheme, rule or method for performing mental acts, playing a game or doing business
• A program for a computer
• The presentation of information
• Medical methods, frivolous inventions and immoral inventions

Then you may not patent it.