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A uspatent is a set of exclusive
rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a
fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of
certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter
(substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and useful
or industrially applicable.
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The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right
to prevent or exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to
sell or importing the claimed invention. The rights given to the
patentee do not include the right to make, use, or sell the invention
themselves. The patentee may have to comply with other laws and
regulations to make use of the claimed invention. So, for example, a
pharmaceutical company may obtain a patent on a new drug but will be
unable to market the drug without regulatory approval, or an inventor
may patent an improvement to a particular type of laser, but be unable
to make or sell the new design without a license from the owner of an
earlier broader patent covering lasers of that type.It is advised to hire a patent lawyer
to handle your patent
application.
The term "patent" originates from the Latin word patere which means "to
lay open" (i.e. make available for public inspection) and the term
letters patent, which originally denoted royal decrees granting
exclusive rights to certain individuals or businesses.
A patent is obtained by filing a written
application at the relevant patent office. The application will contain
a description of how to make and use the invention and, if not self
evident, the usefulness of the invention. The patent application may
also comprise "claims". Claims are one sentence descriptions of
different specific embodiments of the invention that the applicant wants
patent rights to.
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Once a patent application has been filed, a patent office examines that
application for compliance with the requirements of the relevant patent
law. If the application does not comply with all of the requirements,
the objections are communicated to the applicant or his or her patent
agent/attorney, who can then respond to those objections to attempt to
overcome them and obtain the grant of a patent.
In most countries, including the United States, there is no requirement
that the inventor build a prototype or otherwise reduce his or her
invention to actual practice in order to obtain a patent. The
description of the invention, however, must be sufficiently complete so
that another person with ordinary skill in the art of the invention can
make and use the invention without undue experimentation.
Once granted the patent is subject in most countries to renewal fees,
generally due each year, to keep the patent in force. |
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“Patent troll” is a pejorative term used for companies or individuals that purchase or otherwise obtain a patent without an intent to manufacture or sell a product covered by the patent, but instead intending to enforce the patent ...
Author : Daniel Chavka
Another decision that slipped by last week was the ruling of Mr Justice Mann (Patents Court, England and Wales) in Matshusita Electric Industrial Company Ltd and others v UK Intellectual Property Office, a decision that has so far only ...
Author : noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy)
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