The history of United States patent law started even before the U.S. Constitution was adopted, with some state-specific patent laws. The history spans...

Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2)...

history of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of...

statutory United States patent law. Patent law has changed to address new technologies, and decisions of the United States Supreme Court and United States Court...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark...

the United States, a valid patent provides its proprietor with the right to exclude others from practicing the invention claimed in that patent. A person...

Under United States patent law, the term of patent, provided that maintenance fees are paid on time, is 20 years from the filing date of the earliest U...

incomplete list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of patent law. List of United States patent law cases List of United States Supreme Court...

is a list of notable patent law cases in the United States in chronological order. The cases have been decided notably by the United States Supreme Court...

As with all utility patents in the United States, a biological patent provides the patent holder with the right to exclude others from making, using,...

European patent law covers a range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of 1973...

In United States patent law, patent misuse is a patent holder's use of a patent to restrain trade beyond enforcing the exclusive rights that a lawfully...

The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the supreme law is the nation's Constitution, which...

The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications...

United States Legal history of income tax in the United States History of labor law in the United States History of United States patent law History of...

The United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) was a United States federal court which existed from 1909 to 1982 and had jurisdiction over...

showed how an invention works. It was one of the most interesting early features of the United States patent system. Since some early inventors had little...

the Patent Cooperation Treaty Software patents under national laws: Software patents under United States patent law Software patents under United Kingdom...

The X-Patents are all the patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from July 1790 (when the first U.S. patent was issued), to July...

or naturalized citizens of the United States. Patent protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention...

This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...

patents, which have time limits, a land patent is permanent. In the United States, all claims of land ownership can be traced back to a land patent,...

Japanese patent law is based on the first-to-file principle and is mainly given force by the Patent Act (特許法, Tokkyohō) of Japan. Article 2 defines an...

started with the Venetian Statute of 1474 and the 1624 English Statute of Monopolies. History of United States patent law – this started even before the...

In the United States, antitrust law is a collection of mostly federal laws that regulate the conduct and organization of businesses in order to promote...

Tariffs have historically served a key role in the trade policy of the United States. Their purpose was to generate revenue for the federal government...

The United States achieved independent governance with the Lee Resolution and the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. Following the American Revolutionary...

The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is a treaty signed on 1 June 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland, by 53 States and the European Patent Organisation (an intergovernmental...

Under United States patent law, a continuing patent application is a patent application that follows, and claims priority to, an earlier-filed patent application...

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications...