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Patent Questions and Advice / Re: Can you patent a use for gorilla glass?

« on: April 24, 2022, 11:57:41 PM »

My idea is a bit wacky: It takes a material currently used in armored vehicles for its strength, and repurposes it for its optical properties in an everyday household appliance. But once you read the specs on the material, it's obviously a good fit--like using gorilla glass in a windshield.

It sounds like it's not patentable!

Thank you very much for the feedback. It was incredibly helpful

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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.)