The Patomic journal

Notes on invention, patents, and standing out.

Field notes from our engineers and patent attorneys, written for the students and parents working through this for the first time.

Admissions22 Sep 2026

Innovation is the new extracurricular

AI can produce the essay, the paper, and the project. What it cannot produce is something new to the world.

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Patents 101Coming soon

What actually makes an invention patentable

Novelty, inventive step, and industrial application, explained in plain English for students with no patent background.

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ProcessComing soon

Inside the first three weeks

How we take a student from no ideas at all to a locked, defensible invention direction.

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