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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...
    107 KB (11,587 words) - 00:08, 24 November 2024
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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...
    91 KB (9,607 words) - 12:28, 22 October 2024
  • 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...
    73 KB (8,148 words) - 00:12, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Letters patent
    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...
    11 KB (1,289 words) - 14:50, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Patent and Trademark Office
    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...
    87 KB (7,034 words) - 17:47, 26 September 2024
  • an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive...
    12 KB (1,529 words) - 09:56, 3 October 2024
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    obtained by the patented process. In other words, patent infringement is the commission of a prohibited act with respect to a patented invention without...
    29 KB (3,771 words) - 21:06, 9 November 2024
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    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...
    8 KB (909 words) - 00:39, 26 March 2024
  • procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used...
    45 KB (5,358 words) - 20:11, 20 November 2024
  • submarine patents are sometimes referred to as patent pirates. The phrase is occasionally used more generally for any patent used in patent ambush. After...
    14 KB (1,616 words) - 07:54, 7 November 2024
  • not patentable. Its intent was to harmonize substantive patent law but not procedural law. This convention is quite different from the European Patent Convention...
    4 KB (262 words) - 16:55, 4 November 2023
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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...
    11 KB (1,205 words) - 14:52, 17 September 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (310 words) - 10:40, 16 December 2023
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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...
    13 KB (1,693 words) - 08:43, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for X-Patent
    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...
    5 KB (498 words) - 06:22, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benz Patent-Motorwagen
    The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile and...
    13 KB (1,423 words) - 13:00, 31 October 2024
  • A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government...
    4 KB (363 words) - 17:49, 10 December 2023
  • The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications...
    49 KB (4,541 words) - 04:50, 27 August 2024
  • 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...
    4 KB (406 words) - 10:45, 2 January 2024
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    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...
    41 KB (287 words) - 04:13, 21 November 2024
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