Patents and Patent Law

The uspto has a comprehensive website that provides the proper forms to use in submitting your request. Instructions are provided to facilitate the process and your application can be tracked through the process.

A patent is generally enforced by taking legal action to prevent others from making, using, selling or importing products that include the patented invention, or to extract monetary damages from those who have infringed the patent.

If you conceive an invention that happens to be an improvement upon something already patented, you can certainly pursue your own patent on the improvement invention, assuming it is new and non-obvious in light of everything ever used in public or described in any publication in any language anywhere in the world at any time prior to your patent filing date.

A utility patent protects the way an invention works and how it is used. In order to be considered for a Utility Patent, the invention must, at the very least, be a machine, process, manufactured item, material composition - or an improvement on any of these.

A "pending patent" does not exist. A patent application which is pending at the patent office is typically referred to as "patent pending", but has not yet matured into an enforceable right. A patent application can, in theory, be pending indefinitely as long as you are willing to pay to keep it alive (via Requests for Continued Examination or via continuation applications, and so forth).

Whether companies should be allowed to patent organisms is a contentious issue. Proponents argue that patents incentivize innovation and investment in biotechnology, leading to advancements in medicine and agriculture. Opponents contend that patenting living organisms can lead to ethical concerns, monopolization of essential resources, and hinder access to vital genetic materials. Ultimately, a balanced approach that considers both innovation and ethical implications is necessary.

You cannot "patent" a webpage.

However, the contents of a web site, those portions that would be considered to have "sufficient originality" would be afforded copyright protection.

The actual coding, in all likelihood, wouldn't qualify.

you may obtain a patent for your new use, or method making use of the composition of matter, provided you satisfy patentability requirements, e.g., novelty and inventive step. However you cannot re-patent the originally claimed subject matter - it ould lack novelty.

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However, any patents issued prior to 1995 have long-since expired.

Probably not; patents can protect new and useful processes, machines, articles of manufacture, compositions of matter, and improvements thereto. A symbol used as a designation of a source of goods or services can be protected under trademark law. If the symbol is sufficiently original, copyright law may apply.

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.

Thomas Edison was a well respected scientist with over 1000 patents, exact number would be 1093

W.H. Carrier invented the air conditioner in 1902.

Patent protection allows inventors to ascribe value to their intellectual property, and ideally derive an income from it. It also gives the companies or individuals funding expensive research a chance at recouping their investment. In pharmaceuticals, for example, research and testing can take many years and many millions of dollars; giving the developer a head start on selling it won't necessarily make all that money back, but it should help.

Without giving the inventors the brief period of monopoly provided by patent protection, there is little chance of being able to derive income from creativity, and therefore little incentive.

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By the time Alfred Nobel died, he held over 350 patents.

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i have one of these in my possession, it was passed down through family. from what i was told it is a Fabrigues d'Armes Unies de Liege gun, you can see the signature stamp if you take it apart its a circle with the initials in it. I was told it was a 12 gauge black powder shell shotgun, so i have never shot it, but if you look up that name on youtube there is a guy shooting one at cans and it is not as smokey as i would expect black powder to be. I need to take it to a gun smith and have them tell me, if i find out more i will let you know. mine is 1887 tho so there might be some differences. If you find anymore info please post as a reply to this so i can read it also. Hope that helps! Thanks in advance and happy shooting.

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A patent is a grant from a patent office, such as the United States Patent Office. "Patent Pending" is a phrase that an application for a patent has been filed and is in some stage in the process of obtaining a patent. Thus, a patent can be presently enforced while a patent that is merely pending is unenforceable but can mature into a patent that can be enforced. Once the pending patent matures, the patent owner can sue for back damages or reasonable royalties starting from the filing date of the patent.

Latent defects are not obvious and are not easily discoverable while patent defects are obvious.

There are lot of types of typewriter ribbons present in the patent database.

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WWI battleships were the off-spring of the British battleship HMS Dreadnought which was launched in 1906, which itself was a product of the Battle of Tsushima fought in 1905. Tsushima was the test bed between the latest 19th century French and British battleship designs, which upon conclusion, resulted in the laying of the Dreadnoughts keel in October 1905.