A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited...
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of law, an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive...
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letters patent has evolved into the modern intellectual property patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law) granting...
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procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently...
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A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm. A patent is a set of exclusionary...
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The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile and...
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starting from the filing date of the patent application or from the date of grant of the patent. In most patent laws, annuities or maintenance fees have...
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An essential patent or standard-essential patent (SEP) is a patent that claims an invention that must be used to comply with a technical standard. Standard-setting...
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A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...
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States, a design patent is a form of legal protection granted to the ornamental design of an article of manufacture. Design patents are a type of industrial...
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The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the participating...
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The Waldo Patent, a letters patent also known as the Muscongus Patent or the Lincolnshire Patent, was a document granting title to 36 square miles (9,300 ha)...
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business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against...
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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...
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"Patent pending" (sometimes abbreviated by "pat. pend." or "pat. pending") or "patent applied for" are legal designations or expressions that can be used...
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A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government...
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List of Latin phrases (P) (redirect from By Letters Patent)
per reg. lit. etc. by royal letters by letters patent; of academic degrees: awarded by letters patent from the King/Queen, rather than by a University...
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Patent leather is a type of coated leather that has a high-gloss finish. In general, patent leather is fine grain leather that is treated to give it a...
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Patent, patent, patently, or patency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A patent is a set of rights granted by a government to an inventor. Patent may...
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The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications...
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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...
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Patentleft (redirect from Open patent)
Patentleft is the practice of licensing patents (especially biological patents) for royalty-free use, on the condition that adopters license related improvements...
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Tesla was an inventor who obtained around 300 patents worldwide for his inventions. Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have...
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patent office. Patent examiners review patent applications to determine whether the invention(s) claimed in each of them should be granted a patent or...
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Europe-wide patent may refer to: Unitary patent, a European Union project to create a unitary patent in most EU member states European patents, granted by...
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A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...
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A patent medicine (sometimes called a proprietary medicine) is a non-prescription medicine or medicinal preparation that is typically protected and advertised...
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Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of - for example - making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product...
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A patent family is a set of patents or patent applications in various countries in relation to a single invention, for example when a first application...
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Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications. Google Patents indexes more than 87 million patents and patent applications...
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