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Sufficient information must be given to the patent attorney by the inventor to establish that the invention will work for its intended purposes. The Constitutional mandate states that patents can only be granted for advances in the “useful” arts. A patent cannot be granted for an inoperative device or method, such as a perpetual motion machine, and a patent is subject to post‐grant cancellation if the device is proven to be inoperative. Thus, the inventor should be prepared at the initial invention disclosure meeting to provide sufficient information establishing the workability of the invention. A model need not be presented to the patent attorney since the patent attorney has a technical background.