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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...

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...

Patent infringement is the commission of a prohibited act with respect to a patented invention without permission from the patent holder. Permission may...

an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive...

A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Patent leather is a type of coated leather that has a high-gloss finish. In general, patent leather is a fine grain leather that is treated to give it...

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 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)...

used in relation to a product or process once a patent application for the product or process has been filed, but prior to the patent being issued or the...

submarine patents are sometimes referred to as patent pirates. The phrase is occasionally used more generally for any patent used in patent ambush. After...

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

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

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...

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...

patent application or from the date of grant of the patent. In most patent laws, annuities or maintenance fees have to be regularly paid in order to keep...

Patent Ochsner is one of Switzerland's best-known rock bands, all of whose studio albums but one have topped the Swiss charts. Hailing from Bern, they...