"My company spent sixty million dollars to research a new medicine and was hoping to obtain a patent for it, so that others could not copy it immediately."
Little girls sometimes like to wear patent leather shoes.
His patent disdain for his supervisor lead to his termination.
The government issued a land patent to the gold mining company.
These apples cannot be grafted without permission from the patent owner.
It is quite patent that you are required to bring a guitar to guitar club.
A patent.
It could be any of the three. Which it is in any given case depends on the rest of the sentence. "Genentech has a patent on that compound" - Noun. "Harvey was going to patent his invention" - Verb. "These shoes are patent leather" - Adjective.
They wouldn't "steal" your patent, in the sense that you would still own the patent, but they could certainly use your patent to make, use and sell your invention in any other country where you failed to patent it.
Yes; you would apply for a "utility" patent.
Yes, but as soon as the patent is granted, you can no longer use the idea.
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The manufacturing process is fairly simple but expensive.The patent office has to process the paperwork on thousands of new patents every year.
(Cogent, meaning convincing, can be synonymous with strong, indicating an element of persuasion.)Software patent abuse is a cogent argument for the reform of patent laws.The prosecutor presented clear, cogent evidence to the jury.Despite his cogent arguments, I won't change my vote.
Most patents issued today are for improvements on existing products; all you need to do is indicate the patent numbers and titles in the first sentence of the specification in your application.
Yes, a patent issued in 2009 can certainly be used in court to collect damages from anyone who can be proven to be infringing the patent.
To find a patent number for a specific invention, you can search the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website. Use keywords related to the invention to locate the patent in the database. The patent number will be listed on the patent document once you find it.