i dont know either
patents
Encourage frims to research and develop new products that benefit society as a whole.
The temporary monopoly provided by a patent encourages innovation by giving inventors a chance to monetize their inventions with the possiblity of recouping their investment. It doesn't necessarily incentivize invention itself, but it does encourage sharing of the new products and processes.
The patent office of each country examines patent applications for new products and processes to ensure their novelty, and issues patents, which give the inventors a temporary monopoly on their inventions.
Marcia H. Gutcho has written: 'Textured foods and allied products' -- subject(s): Flavoring essences, Food substitutes, Meat substitutes, Patents 'Food acid manufacture: recent developments' -- subject(s): Food industry and trade, Organic acids, Patents 'Feeds for livestock, poultry and pets' -- subject(s): Feeds, Patents 'Alcoholic malt beverages, 1969' -- subject(s): Brewing, Patents 'Plastic printing plates manufacture and technology' -- subject(s): Patents, Photoengraving, Plastics, Printing plates 'Animal feeds, 1970' -- subject(s): Feeds, Patents 'Pulp mill processes' -- subject(s): Papermaking, Patents, Wood-pulp industry 'Cosmetic films, 1970' -- subject(s): Cosmetics, Patents 'Household and industrial fabric conditioners' -- subject(s): Patents, Textile chemicals 'Textured protein products' -- subject(s): Patents, Proteins 'Dairy products and eggs' -- subject(s): Dairy processing, Egg processing, Patents 'Alcoholic beverage processes' -- subject(s): Alcoholic beverages, Patents
The patent office of each country examines patent applications for new products and processes to ensure their novelty, and issues patents, which give the inventors a temporary monopoly on their inventions.
The patent office of each country examines patent applications for new products and processes to ensure their novelty, and issues patents, which give the inventors a temporary monopoly on their inventions.
Patents cover inventions, not products. Some products may have multiple inventions, some patented, some patent pending, some not patentable at all. Some inventions are patented in one country and not in others. It would be impossible to determine which products might include patents, let alone how many of them there might have ever been in even a single country that issues patents.
No; patents are for inventions and processes. If you are using it as a business or product name, you may register it as a trademark.
Patents establish a temporary monopoly, preventing other entities from developing the same products without a license.
encourage scholarly, technical, and scientific advances
It's extremely doubtful that anyone has. Titanium is a natural element (symbol Ti, and atomic number 22) listed in the periodic table! Patent law typically applies to man-made (i.e., non-natural) materials, items (products and designs), processes, and similar use of materials and ideas. For example, there are records of patents for certain smelting processes used in steel manufacture, but there would not be patents for the individual natural ores and metals used in steel-making. The patent laws are primarily intended to protect ownership rights, manufacture, and rights to sale of derived products.