U.S. Code     TITLE 35:	PATENTS
 
PART II:	PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS
 
CHAPTER 10:	PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS
 

Sec. 101.   Inventions patentable

Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, 
manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement 
thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and 
requirements of this title.

(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 797.)