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)...

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 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 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...

the United States cases in the area of patent law. List of United States patent law cases List of United States Supreme Court copyright case law List...

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...

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...

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...

the modern intellectual property patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law) granting exclusive rights in an...

notable patent law cases in the United States in chronological order. The cases have been decided notably by the United States Supreme Court, the United States...

US patent law, non-obviousness is one of the requirements that an invention must meet to qualify for patentability, codified as a part of Patent Act...

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

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 patent rights...

is granted in the United States, then anyone in the United States is prohibited from making, using, selling or importing the patented item, while people...

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...

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,...

United States patent law) or involve an inventive step (in European patent law and under the Patent Cooperation Treaty) Useful (in U.S. patent law) or be...

Substantive Law on Patents for Invention, also called Strasbourg Convention or Strasbourg Patent Convention, is a multilateral treaty signed by Member States of...

the priority issues of multiple patent applications. It is a proceeding unique to the patent law of the United States. Unlike in most other countries...

After the United States signed the TRIPS Agreement of the WTO in 1995, the standard patent term of 20 years under United States patent law has been measured...

In the United States, a design patent is a form of legal protection granted to the ornamental design of an article of manufacture. Design patents are a...

inventive step (or non-obviousness in United States patent law) of an invention. Under United States patent law, the abstract may be called "Abstract...

In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts...

being". In United States patent law, the utility requirement is a more or less corresponding, but different, requirement. Under the European Patent Convention...

The United States Patent Classification is an official patent classification system in use and maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office...

European Patent Convention and in Patent Cooperation Treaty, while the expression "non-obviousness" is predominantly used in United States patent law. The...

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

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

inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Patent protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent...