According to patent law, an invention must be of patentable subject matter (a process, machine, article of manufacture, compositions of matter, or improvement to one of these), new, useful, and non-obvious. However, defining what constitutes an invention and what to patent protect of that invention are the most difficult things about the patenting process. At Garlick & Markison, we help answer these hard questions. We define an invention as a solution to a technical problem. Most high-tech products have 10s-1000s of technical problems to solve to bring the product to life.