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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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

The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the participating...

order to be registered as a patent agent or patent attorney in the United States, one must pass the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...

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...

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German engineer Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile...

procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently...

software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm. The validity of these patents can be...

Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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) that...

A patent box is a special very low corporate tax regime used by several countries to incentivise research and development by taxing patent revenues differently...

list of Edison patents. Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 patents worldwide for his inventions. 1,093 of Edison's patents were in the United...

"Patent pending" (sometimes abbreviated by "pat. pend." or "pat. pending") or "patent applied for" are legal designations or expressions that can be used...

A patent engineer or patent scientist is a patent professional who is typically involved in preparing and prosecuting patent applications. The terms are...

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

The smartphone wars or smartphone patents licensing and litigation refers to commercial struggles among smartphone manufacturers including Sony Mobile...

A patent medicine (sometimes called a proprietary medicine) is a non-prescription medicine or medicinal preparation that is typically protected and advertised...

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...

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...

The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...

utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark...

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...