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Once the disclosure of the invention has been provided to the patent attorney, the attorney must decide and discuss with the inventor whether the subject matter is sufficiently concrete, and not merely conceptual, to qualify for patent protection. Next, it must be determined whether the invention falls within one of the statutory classes covered under Patent Law—that is, if the invention is a process, machine, manufacture, or a composition of matter, and/or any new and useful improvement thereof. The patent attorney must also determine whether an article patent, method patent, design patent, or a combination of several of these would best serve your purposes. Also, the possibility of using trade secret, trademark, and copyright protection must also be discussed, depending upon the nature of the invention.