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A patent determines the true owner of an invention. It grants rights to the first person to register a particular invention with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The major entitlement given to the patent holder is that he or she is the only person who can make, use, offer for sale, or sell the invention on U.S. soil. No one may import the invention onto U.S. soil to compete with the patent holder’s patent either.

Patents are good for 20 from the application date, providing that maintenance fees are paid continuously. Patent term extensions are possible under special circumstances. There is no such thing as an international patent issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of ... (more)

A patent determines the true owner of an invention. It grants rights to the first person to register a particular invention with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The major entitlement given to the patent holder is that he or she is the only person who can make, use, offer for sale, or sell the invention on U.S. soil. No one may import the invention onto U.S. soil to compete with the patent holder’s patent either.

Patents are good for 20 from the application date, providing that maintenance fees are paid continuously. Patent term extensions are possible under special circumstances. There is no such thing as an international patent issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Three types of patents cover the gambit of inventions across the U.S. They are the utility patent, the design patent and the plant patent. Utility patents are granted for new and useful machines, processes (usually technical or industrial), and articles of manufacture or chemical composition of matter. They can also be given for the expansion upon any of these discoveries. Design patents are granted to those who invent an original design for an article of manufacture. Plant patents are granted to those who unearth or invent and asexually reproduce a new variety of plant.

Court interpretations have refined the limits of what may be patented. Through the courts, it has been determined that laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas are not patentable. Furthermore, a patent cannot be granted simply for the idea of a machine or article of manufacture; a complete description of the item is required.

Finally, an invention must be found as entirely new in order to be patented. A person may not obtain a patent for a known or common invention simply because no one else has sought the patent in the past. In other words, a patent holder must prove that the item is new and that they are responsible in some way for its discovery.


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