article of manufacture

Article of manufacture Wikipedia. In United States patent law, an article of manufacture (also termed a manufacture) is one of the four principal categories of things that may be patented. The other three are a process (also termed a method), a machine, and a composition of matter. In United States patent law, that same terminology has been in use since the first patent act in 1790 (with the exception that processes were formerly termed "arts").

Web  This interpretation advances a workable definition of the term “article of manufacture” that more easily identifies the relevant article of manufacture for arriving.