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Patent Questions and Advice / Can you patent a use for gorilla glass?
« on: April 24, 2022, 04:39:20 PM »
Can you patent a use for gorilla glass?
The gorilla glass itself seems to be patented:
https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/patent-notices.html
Are these the only patents that can be had? Or could someone patent a *use* for their gorilla glass?
Although gorilla glass was developed for smart phones, it is now being adapted for use in automobiles as a lightweight, super-strong windshield:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UHzAb8ko24
There was about a year of research that went into creating that successful three-layer laminate.
Was their idea of using gorilla glass as a car windshield a *patentable* idea? Or does it fail the "non-obvious" requirement?
Their idea seems to check all of the other boxes: new and novel, original, useful... I imagine the use of gorilla glass will become standard in the automotive industry over time. But was it patentable?
(I have an analogous idea, using a totally different material, that could be also be widely beneficial.)
The gorilla glass itself seems to be patented:
https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/patent-notices.html
Are these the only patents that can be had? Or could someone patent a *use* for their gorilla glass?
Although gorilla glass was developed for smart phones, it is now being adapted for use in automobiles as a lightweight, super-strong windshield:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UHzAb8ko24
There was about a year of research that went into creating that successful three-layer laminate.
Was their idea of using gorilla glass as a car windshield a *patentable* idea? Or does it fail the "non-obvious" requirement?
Their idea seems to check all of the other boxes: new and novel, original, useful... I imagine the use of gorilla glass will become standard in the automotive industry over time. But was it patentable?
(I have an analogous idea, using a totally different material, that could be also be widely beneficial.)