A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited...

The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the participating...

letters patent has evolved into the modern intellectual property patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law) granting...

The Waldo Patent, a letters patent also known as the Muscongus Patent or the Lincolnshire Patent, was a document granting title to 36 square miles (9,300 ha)...

Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar") is used today to refer to the first cars produced by Benz & Cie between 1885 and 1893; these had three wheels...

A patent portfolio is a collection of patents owned by a single entity, such as an individual or corporation. The patents may be related or unrelated...

A patent engineer or patent scientist is a patent professional who is typically involved in preparing and prosecuting patent applications. The terms are...

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...

Patent, patent, patently, or patency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A patent is a set of rights granted by a government to an inventor. Patent may...

list of Edison patents. Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 patents worldwide for his inventions. 1,093 of Edison's patents were in the United...

relating to patents. A Patent Act is a country's legislation that controls the use of patents, such as the Patentgesetz in Germany. Patent Act Statute...

A patent box is a special very low corporate tax regime used by several countries to incentivise research and development by taxing patent revenues differently...

Patent leather is a type of coated leather that has a high-gloss finish. In general, patent leather is fine grain leather that is treated to give it a...

A medical patent may refer to a biological patent (see also gene patent) a chemical or pharmaceutical patent a patent on a medical device Second medical...

A patent medicine (sometimes called a proprietary medicine) is a non-prescription medicine or medicinal preparation that is typically protected and advertised...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark...

of law, an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive...

business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against...

The term patent cliff refers to the phenomenon of patent expiration dates and an abrupt drop in sales that follows for a group of products capturing a...

Triadic patents are a series of corresponding patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...

A patent ambush occurs when a member of a standard-setting organization, while participating in development and setting a standard, withholds information...

Patent pirate may refer to: Someone who willfully commits patent infringement Patent troll, someone who defends their patents with undue aggression, often...

software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm. The validity of these patents can be...

The European Patent Convention (EPC), also known as the Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, is a multilateral treaty instituting...

utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark...

Tesla was an inventor who obtained around 300 patents worldwide for his inventions. Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have...

Patent World was a monthly magazine published in English and specialized in patent law and business. It was launched in 1987 and closed in 2010. List of...

Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of — for example — making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product...

Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) generally known as the Indian Patent Office, is an agency under the Department...

procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently...

A patent privateer or intellectual property privateer is a party, typically a patent assertion entity, authorized by another party, often a technology...

Baidu Patents, or Baidu Zhuanli (Chinese: 百度专利) is a Chinese free online patent search service, launched on 1 January 2008. The Baidu Patents search engine...

Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC (CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by...

Government patent use law is a statute codified at 28 USC § 1498(a) that is a "form of government immunity from patent claims." Section 1498 gives the...

The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a set of initiatives for providing accelerated patent prosecution procedures by sharing information between some...

and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. The modern concept of intellectual...

Federal Patent Court may refer to: Federal Patent Court of Germany Federal Patent Court of Switzerland Patent court This disambiguation page lists articles...

Patent fuel was a 19th-century artificial fuel made in Cardiff in Wales by mixing in a hydraulic press coal and binding substances, like pitch. There were...

Patent prosecution is the interaction between applicants and a patent office with regard to a patent application or a patent. The prosecution process is...

POPA represents all patent office professionals at the US Patent and Trademark Office including: Patent Attorneys at the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences...

Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2) that...

In a patent or patent application, the claims define in technical terms the extent, i.e. the scope, of the protection conferred by a patent, or the protection...

property, patent owners may grant permission to others to engage in conduct that would otherwise be within the scope of a patent. For example, a patent owner...

The Six Degrees patent, United States patent #6,175,831, "Method and apparatus for constructing a networking database and system", granted to Andrew Weinreich...

The software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of public policy, it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented...

States, a design patent is a form of legal protection granted to the ornamental design of an article of manufacture. Design patents are a type of industrial...

This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications...

A submarine patent is a patent whose issuance and publication are intentionally delayed by the applicant for an artificially long pendency, which can be...

United States patent law, a continuing patent application is a patent application that follows, and claims priority to, an earlier-filed patent application...

through registration with governmental agencies, such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or the European Union Intellectual Property...

The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The...

Patent law in the Netherlands, or simply Dutch patent law, is mainly governed by the Kingdom Patents Act (Dutch: Rijksoctrooiwet) and the European Patent...

A patent examiner (or, historically, a patent clerk) is an employee, usually a civil servant with a scientific or engineering background, working at a...

An essential patent or standard-essential patent (SEP) is a patent that claims an invention that must be used to comply with a technical standard. Standard-setting...

Under United States patent law, the term of patent, provided that maintenance fees are paid on time, is 20 years from the filing date of the earliest U...

The European Patent Judges' Symposium (French: Colloque des juges européens de brevets, German: Symposium europäischer Patentrichter) is a biennial symposium...

The European Patent Register, also known as the Register of European Patents, is a public register kept by the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains...

The smartphone wars or smartphone patents licensing and litigation refers to commercial struggles among smartphone manufacturers including Sony Mobile...

The February Patent was a constitution of the Austrian Empire promulgated in the form of letters patent on 26 February 1861. Franz Joseph I established...

Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...

writ but later confirmed by letters patent. More often, letters patent are used to create peerages. Letters patent must explicitly name the recipient of...

The printing patent or printing privilege was a precursor of modern copyright. It was an exclusive right to print a work or a class of works. The earliest...

The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is a treaty adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on 1 June 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland. It entered...

The Wright brothers patent war centers on the patent that the Wright brothers received for their method of aircraft flight control. They were two Americans...

starting from the filing date of the patent application or from the date of grant of the patent. In most patent laws, annuities or maintenance fees have...

Canadian patent law is the legal system regulating the granting of patents for inventions within Canada, and the enforcement of these rights in Canada...

"Patent pending" (sometimes abbreviated by "pat. pend." or "pat. pending") or "patent applied for" are legal designations or expressions that can be used...

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a common supranational patent court of 18 member states of the European Union, which opened on 1 June 2023. It hears...

state of the art or background art) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular whether an invention...

maintain a granted patent in force. Some patent laws require the payment of maintenance fees for pending patent applications. Not all patent laws require the...

A land patent is a form of letters patent assigning official ownership of a particular tract of land that has gone through various legally-prescribed processes...

Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications. Google Patents indexes more than 87 million patents and patent applications...

S. Patent No. 1 is a board game designed by Falko Goettsch & James Ernest, and published by Cheapass Games in 2001. This is indeed not US patent No....

Patent Information News was a trilingual, quarterly magazine published by the Principal Directorate Patent Information of the European Patent Office (EPO)...

The GCC Patent Office (GCCPO) is a regional patent office based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within the Secretariat General of the Gulf Cooperation Council...

In patent law, a patent pool is a consortium of two or more companies agreeing to cross-license patents relating to a particular technology. The creation...

The patent safe game was a confidence trick much practiced during the late American Civil War (ca. the mid-1860s) in and around New York City. It is a...

The Netherlands Patent Office (Dutch: Octrooicentrum Nederland) is the patent office of the Netherlands. It is an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Economic...

The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...

The patent rolls (Latin: Rotuli litterarum patentium) are a series of administrative records compiled in the English, Irish, British and United Kingdom...

The Patent Reform Act may refer to: The Patent Reform Act of 2005, an unenacted bill introduced in the 109th United States Congress The Patent Reform Act...

Patentable, statutory or patent-eligible subject matter is subject matter of an invention that is considered appropriate for patent protection in a given...

Patent opposition proceedings are administrative mechanisms within the patent law framework that allow third parties to formally challenge the validity...

The Venetian Patent Statute of March 19, 1474, established in the Republic of Venice the first statutory patent system in Europe, and may be deemed to...

Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. This includes new types of e-commerce, insurance...

A patent classification is a system for examiners of patent offices or other people to categorize (code) documents, such as published patent applications...

The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is a patent classification system, which has been jointly developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) and...

the work of others, it can be patented. A patent, if granted, gives the inventor a proprietary interest in the patent over a specific period of time...

members are patent information researchers, patent attorneys, patent agents, licensing professionals, patent information vendors, and patent documentation...

clearly defined, the backlog of unexamined patent applications consists, at one point in time, of all the patent applications that have been filed and still...

of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...

their strategy. Patent visualisation, like patent mapping, is used to quickly view a patent portfolio. Software dedicated to patent visualisation began...

The patent of nobility, also letters of nobility (always pl.), or diploma of nobility documented the legal act of ennoblement (granting rights of a nobleman...

Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC; Russian: Евразийская патентная конвенция) is an international patent law treaty instituting both the Eurasian Patent Organization...

the United States Patent and Trademark Office is too prone to grant overly broad patents. They feel that these overly broad patents and the level of damages...

public in patent examination is used in some forms to help identifying relevant prior art and, more generally, to help assessing whether patent applications...

Patent law in modern mainland China began with the promulgation of the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China, in 1984. This law was modeled after...

Letters patent (always in the plural; abbreviated to LsP by the Crown Office), in the United Kingdom, are legal instruments generally issued by the monarch...

policymakers, industries, and trade organizations have held differing views on patents and engaged in contentious debates on the subject. Critical perspectives...

A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government...

The Cheesecock, or Cheesecock Patent, was a vast tract of land that seven English colonists bought from Iroquois Indians in 1702. It included the southern...

before the European Patent Office, also known as European Patent Institute (epi), is a professional association of European patent attorneys and an international...

The Confederate Patent Office was the agency of the Confederate States of America charged with issuing patents on inventions. The Commissioner during its...

Abraham Lincoln's patent relates to an invention to buoy and lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river. Abraham Lincoln conceived the invention...

A patent thicket is "an overlapping set of patent rights" which requires innovators to reach licensing deals for multiple patents. This concept has negative...

Digital Library (IPDL) is a free online service for searching Japanese patents, patent applications, utility models, designs and trademarks. It makes available...

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a medical condition in which the ductus arteriosus fails to close after birth: this allows a portion of oxygenated blood...

The Patent Busting Project is an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) initiative challenging patents that the organization claims are illegitimate and...

A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...

The European Patent Bulletin is a weekly trilingual publication of the European Patent Office (EPO), generally issued every Wednesday. It contains "entries...

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is a Unitaid-backed internat ional organisation founded in July 2010, based in Geneva, Switzerland. MPP's mandate is to...

The copyright status of the content of patent applications and patents may vary from one legal system to another. Whether scientific literature can be...

The International Patent Institute (IIB; French: Institut International des Brevets), established on June 6, 1947, in The Hague, Netherlands, was a multinational...

Double patenting is the granting of two patents for a single invention, to the same proprietor and in the same country or countries. According to the European...

The Rombout Patent was a Colonial era land patent issued by King James II of England in 1685 sanctioning the right of Francis Rombouts and his partners...

The Peer To Patent project is an initiative that seeks to assist patent offices in improving patent quality by gathering public input in a structured...

and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount...

that which is left when intellectual property rights, such as copyright, patents, and trademarks, expire or are abandoned. In this historical context Paul...

The Fauconnier Patent was a royal land patent granted in 1705 in Dutchess County, Province of New York. It was the twelfth of fourteen granted between...

per reg. lit. etc. by royal letters by letters patent; of academic degrees: awarded by letters patent from the King/Queen, rather than by a University...

Novelty is one of the patentability requirements for a patent claim, whose purpose is to prevent issuing patents on known things, i.e. to prevent public...

The Cabilly patents are two US patents issued to Genentech and City of Hope which relate to the "fundamental technology required for the artificial synthesis...

The Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) was the first patent statute passed by the federal government of the United States. It was enacted on April 10, 1790...

A patent family is a set of patents or patent applications in various countries in relation to a single invention, for example when a first application...

Japanese patent law is based on the first-to-file principle and is mainly given force by the Patent Act (特許法, Tokkyohō) of Japan. Article 2 defines an...

The Israel Patent Office (Hebrew: רשות הפטנטים, המדגמים וסימני המסחר) (Reshut hapatentim), affiliated with the Israeli Ministry of Justice, handles issues...

April 1929) was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical, modern automobile...

sets out the criteria for patentability, what can and cannot be patented in Canada, the process for obtaining a Canadian patent, and provides for the enforcement...

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent (born April 30, 1940) is a teacher and author of over 100 children's nonfiction books such as: How Smart are Animals?, At Home with...

Kayaderossera Patent (or Kayaderosseras Patent) was a grant of land made by Anne, Queen of Great Britain in 1701 to thirteen subjects. The patent included...

services based upon the patents held. Patent holding companies may exist for tax reasons. Patent holding companies may also operate patent pools in order to...

Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), from January 20, 2025 until July 2026. She...

South African patent system is the system by which patents are granted in South Africa. As is the case in many other countries, a patent provides legal...

A chemical patent, pharmaceutical patent or drug patent is a patent for an invention in the chemical or pharmaceuticals industry. Strictly speaking, in...

The German Patent Classification is a patent classification system that was used in several European countries. The German Patent Office (German: Kaiserliches...

The Patent Act, 2003 (Act 657) is a law governing the granting and protections of patents in Ghana. It replaced the Patent Law, 1992 (PNDCL 305A). Sikoyo...

The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) is published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for use by patent attorneys and...

European patent law covers a range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of...

The Philipse Patent was a British royal patent for a large tract of land on the east bank of the Hudson River about 50 miles north of New York City. It...

Second Patent Examination Department, examining patent applications related to machinery Third Patent Examination Department, examining patent applications...

A patent application or patent may contain drawings, also called patent drawings, illustrating the invention, some of its embodiments (which are particular...

the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their...

Patent Pending is an American rock band formed in Mount Sinai, New York, in 2001. Consisting of Joe Ragosta (vocals), Anthony Mingoia (drums), Robert Ragosta...

Letters Patent, 1947 (formally, the Letters Patent Constituting the Office of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada), are letters patent signed...

Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention, also called Strasbourg Convention or Strasbourg Patent Convention, is a multilateral treaty...

A patent war is a competition or rivalry between corporations or individuals to secure patents for litigation, whether offensively or defensively. There...

A patent map is a graphical model of patent visualisation. This practice "enables companies to identify the patents in a particular technology space,...

There are four overriding requirements for a patent to be granted under United Kingdom patent law. Firstly, there must have been an invention. That invention...

Commissioner of Patents may refer to: Commissioner of Patents (Australia) Commissioner of Patents (Canada) Commissioner for Patents (US) who oversees...

The draft European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), or formally the Draft Agreement on the establishment of a European patent litigation system, was...

Defensive patent aggregation (DPA) is the practice of purchasing patents or patent rights to keep such patents out of the hands of entities that would...

The European Patent Organisation (sometimes abbreviated EPOrg in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, one of the two organs of the...

into its opening. The Fleshlight was designed by Steve Shubin, whose 1997 patent filing for a "device for discreet sperm collection" was granted in July...

patent – Essential patent – Insurance patent – Medical patent – Software patent – Submarine patent – Patent application – request pending at a patent...

the Constitution grants Congress the right to establish copyright and patent laws. Shortly after the Constitution was passed, Congress enacted the Copyright...

Patent pending is an expression used in patent law. Patent pending may also refer to: Patent Pending (album), the 2006 debut album of the American band...

A covered business method (CBM) patent is defined in section 18 of the America Invents Act (AIA) as a patent that "claims a method or corresponding apparatus...

the European Patent Office (EPO) on patent law issues. In the context of the SACEPO meetings, the EPO meets users of the European patent system from industry...

Official Journal of the European Patent Office (OJ EPO) is a monthly trilingual publication of the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains "notices...

The Patent of Toleration (German: Toleranzpatent, Hungarian: Türelmi rendelet) was an edict of toleration issued on 13 October 1781 by the Habsburg emperor...

The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as U.S. patent 748,626. A realty and taxation game intended to educate users about...

German patent law is mainly governed by the Patents Act (German: Patentgesetz) and the European Patent Convention (EPC). A patent covering Germany can...

International Patent Classification (IPC) is a hierarchical patent classification system used in over 100 countries to classify the content of patents in a uniform...

products using his quick-freezing methods. In 1929, the company and its patents were acquired by Goldman Sachs and the Postum Cereal Company, later General...

national patent offices) in the patent field", or a body where the national patent offices of the Contracting States of the European Patent Convention...

In Japanese patent law, F-term is a system for classifying Japanese patent documents according to the technical features of the inventions described in...

Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) is an international organization set up in 1995 by the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC) to grant Eurasian patents. Since...

The Sheffield Patent, dated January 1, 1623 (Julian calendar) is a land grant from Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (Sheffeild in the original) of...

least 1989 by Sweet & Maxwell. European Patent Office, European Patent Office Reports 1986, ESC Pub. European Patent Office reports, Sweet & Maxwell, 1989...

The 1836 U.S. Patent Office fire was the first of two major fires the U.S. Patent Office has had in its history. It occurred in Blodget's Hotel building...

Holland Patent station is a historic train station located at Holland Patent in Oneida County, New York. It was built in 1890 and is a one-story, rectangular...

Patent Ochsner is one of Switzerland's best-known rock bands, all of whose studio albums but one have topped the Swiss charts. Hailing from Bern, they...

intellectual property or intangible assets, patents and patent applications may be transferred. A transfer of patent or patent application can be the result of a...

European patent law is characterized by the coexistence of national patent systems, and thus national patent offices and national courts; a European patent system...

The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW, formerly EPLA) is a professional association of patent lawyers, with a registered office in Brussels,...

The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (Spanish: Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas, sometimes abbreviated SPTO or OEPM) is an autonomous agency of...

In United States patent law, patent misuse is a patent holder's use of a patent to restrain trade beyond enforcing the exclusive rights that a lawfully...

Once an invention is patented in Canada, exclusive rights are granted to the patent holder as defined by s.42 of the Patent Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-4)...

other letters patent that included the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1960, the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1982, and the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 (No. 1)...

known as the Monmouth Patent, Navesink Tract or Navesink Patent was a large triangular tract of land granted as a land patent to settlers of New Jersey...

Patent Shaft, formerly The Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, established in 1840, was a steel-making company that operated large steelworks situated...

International Patent Documentation, is a freely available international patent database. It is produced and maintained by the European Patent Office (EPO)...

patent law, an inventor is the person, or persons in United States patent law, who contribute to the claims of a patentable invention. In some patent...

to FAT first seen in Windows 95: U.S. patent 5,579,517, U.S. patent 5,745,902, U.S. patent 5,758,352, U.S. patent 6,286,013 (all expired since 2013). On...

Institute acts as Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) authority. As of May 1, 2013, it is, with the European Patent Office and the Swedish Patent and Registration...

Rusher's Patent Types were the characters of an experimental serif typeface invented, patented and promoted by Philip Rusher in Banbury, England, from...

asset is a portfolio of 50 US patents and additional pending US and international patent applications. These patents and patent applications disclose inventions...

A patent slip or marine railway is an inclined plane extending from shoreline into water, featuring a "cradle" onto which a ship is first floated, and...

Australian patent law is law governing the granting of a temporary monopoly on the use of an invention, in exchange for the publication and free use of...

issuance countries, patent maintenance payments, patent citations, patent infringement actions etc.) from the patent lifecycle. Patent analytics is used...

The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (German: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt; abbreviation: DPMA) is the German national patent office, with headquarters...

engineer, and patented (no. 929) on 8 March 1879. His father, Edward was manager of oil seed crushing mills in Leeds. The British patent has not been found...

purpose was to promote the benefits of patents for society. Association membership comprised US patent examiners, patent agents and attorneys and inventors...

"Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in the 2011 anthology The Thackery T...

drug that was originally protected by chemical patents. Generic drugs are allowed for sale after the patents on the original drugs expire. Because the active...

Patent Blue V, also called Food Blue 5, Sulphan Blue, Acid Blue 3, L-Blau 3, C-Blau 20, Patentblau V, Sky Blue, or C.I. 42051, is a sky blue synthetic...

Opposition to software patents is widespread in the free software community. In response, various mechanisms have been tried to defuse the perceived problem...

The Open Patent Alliance is a patent pool that was announced on June 9, 2008, for owners and claimants of patents and intellectual property related to...

The Off-patent Drugs Bill is a Bill introduced before the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Jonathan Evans in October 2014. It aims to make the British...

Intellectual Property Office, formerly the National [Swedish] Patent and Registration Office (Swedish: Patent- och registreringsverket, PRV), is a Swedish government...

The Barbed Wire Patent Case, 143 U.S. 275 was a significant patent dispute in 1892 between plaintiff Joseph Glidden and the USPTO regarding the right of...

A patent medicine, also known as a proprietary medicine or a nostrum (from the Latin nostrum remedium, or "our remedy") is a commercial product advertised...

States patent law, a method, also called "process", is one of the four principal categories of things that may be patented through "utility patents". The...

Soho Manufactory works near Birmingham, acquired his patent rights. An extension of the patent to 1800 was successfully obtained in 1775. Through Boulton...

The expression 'Hong Kong Letters Patent' is most commonly used to refer to the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917, one of the principal constitutional documents...

software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software patents cover...

patent caveat, often shortened to caveat, was a legal document filed with the United States Patent Office. Caveats were instituted by the U.S. Patent...

inventive step and non-obviousness reflect a general patentability requirement present in most patent laws, according to which an invention should be sufficiently...

As with all utility patents in the United States, a biological patent provides the patent holder with the right to exclude others from making, using,...

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) is the British professional body of patent attorneys. The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) was...

application is a patent application filed at the intellectual property offices of some countries. It does not mature into an issued patent and is deemed...

Software Patent Institute (established 1992 in Ann Arbor) is an American non-profit corporation established to assist in the correct assignment of software...

Europe-wide patent may refer to: Unitary patent, a European Union project to create a unitary patent in most EU member states European patents, granted by...

Patent monetization refers to the generation of revenue or the attempt to generate revenue by a person or company by selling or licensing the patents...

States Patent Office. The title associated with this function has changed over time, from Superintendent of Patents to Commissioner of Patents to Undersecretary...

The European Patent Convention (EPC), the multilateral treaty instituting the legal system according to which European patents are granted, contains provisions...

A tax patent is a patent that discloses and claims a system or method for reducing or deferring taxes. Tax patents have been granted predominantly in the...

The Patent Reform Act of 2005 (H.R. 2795) was United States patent legislation proposed in the 109th United States Congress. Texas Republican Congressman...

is a U.S. common law patent doctrine that limits the extent to which patent holders can control an individual article of a patented product after a so-called...

United States patent law, a reexamination is a process whereby anyone—third party or inventor—can have a U.S. patent reexamined by a patent examiner to...

Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved...

This is a list of special types of claims that may be found in a patent or patent application. For explanations about independent and dependent claims...

The Patent Act of 1922 began circulating general information about how to acquire a patent to the general public as a means of spurring private invention...

Saudi Patent Office is a government entity in Saudi Arabia responsible for implementing of the law of patents including the processing of patents applications...

The Plant Patent Act of 1930 (enacted on June 17, 1930 as Title III of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff, ch. 497, 46 Stat. 703, codified as 35 U.S.C. Ch. 15) is...

States patent law 1836 U.S. Patent Office fire Patent Office 1877 fire Kenneth W. Dobyns, The Patent Office Pony; A History of the Early Patent Office...

The unitary patent for Switzerland and Liechtenstein is a patent having a unitary character over the territories of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It can...

1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law proclaiming that patents were to be authorized for "any useful art...

practice in patent cases —prosecuting patent applications — before it. This additional requirement does not apply to the litigation of patent-related matters...

The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) was an administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which decided...

A patent of precedence is a grant to an individual by letters patent of a higher social or professional position than the precedence to which his ordinary...

before the European Patent Office (EPO), divisional applications can be filed under Article 76 EPC out of pending earlier European patent applications. A...

history of United States patent law started even before the U.S. Constitution was adopted, with some state-specific patent laws. The history spans over...

Patents are legal instruments intended to encourage innovation by providing a limited monopoly to the inventor (or their assignee) in return for the disclosure...

The Patent Office of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Urząd Patentowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, abbreviated UPRP) is the patent office of Poland. It is...

and one of the first American women to be granted a patent by the U.S. patent office. Her patent, granted on 21 July 1815, was for a corset. It improved...

him, and was patented in Germany on 31 March 1908, patent No. 197183, then in Britain, on 1 April 1908, patent No. 7219, in France (patent No. 390326)...

filed for the patent of a brake system (US Patent no. 260776) that could be used for a dumbwaiter on January 6, 1883, then for the patent on the mechanical...

The Patent Office fire of 1877 was the second of two major fires of the U.S. Patent Office. It occurred in the 1864 Patent Office Building of Washington...

The Old Patent Office Building is a historic building in Washington, D.C. that covers an entire city block between F and G Streets and 7th and 9th Streets...

The patent law in Hong Kong is based on the Hong Kong Patents Ordinance of 27 June 1997, as last amended on 22 February 2008. The Hong Kong patent system...

A divisional patent application, also called divisional application or simply divisional, is a type of patent application that contains subject-matter...

Patentleft is the practice of licensing patents (especially biological patents) for royalty-free use, on the condition that adopters license related improvements...

The Serfdom Patent of 1 November 1781 aimed to abolish aspects of the traditional serfdom (German: Leibeigenschaft) system of the Habsburg monarchy through...

The Robot Patent is an English-language scholarly term for the imperial decrees (patents) in the 1700s abolishing compulsory labor (robot) of serfs, issued...

companies experimenting in the field have been hit with patent lawsuits. In particular, U.S. Patent No. 6,368,268 titled "Method and device for interactive...

entitlements as queen dowager and her lands reverted to the Crown by the Letters Patent to the late Queen Annulled Act 1483. She was granted most, but not all,...

In United States patent law, the machine-or-transformation test is a test of patent eligibility under which a claim to a process qualifies for consideration...

In United States patent law, utility is a patentability requirement. As provided by 35 U.S.C. § 101, an invention is "useful" if it provides some identifiable...

for the patent of a brake system (US Patent no. 260776) that could be used for a dumbwaiter on January 6, 1883. He later filed for the patent on the mechanical...

Red Patent Leather is a live album by the American rock and roll group New York Dolls, released in 1984. It was recorded in New York a decade earlier,...

The X-Patents are all the patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from July 1790 (when the first U.S. patent was issued), to July...

the European Patent Office (or, for short, the EPO Guidelines) are general instructions, for the examiners working at the European Patent Office (EPO)...

their front room windows on the evening of a monarch's wedding. Price's Patent Candle has maintained a documented association with the British Royal Household...

Patent and Trademark Office may refer to: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) Danish Patent and...

of his invention, Whitney lost much of his profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin. Thereafter, he turned his attention to...

Committee on Patents was a committee of the United States Senate. It was established September 7, 1837, as the "Committee on Patents and the Patent Office"...

World Patent Marketing (WPM) was a vertically integrated manufacturer and engineer of patented products that utilized external and contract-registered...

The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 American silent drama film about a self-centered boxer who performs a heroic act in World War I that severely wounds him...

prototype of any of the patented inventions was ever produced, and multiple physicists consulted by journalists described the patents as containing pseudoscientific...

Greg Patent is an American cookbook author and baker. He also co-hosts a weekly radio show about food on Montana Public Radio, The Food Guys, with Jon...

Peer-to-Patent Australia was an initiative designed to improve the patent examination process and the quality of issued patents by connecting the review...

European patents have the possibility to opt out their European patents or patent applications from the exclusive competence of the Unified Patent Court...

The Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP; Korean: 지식재산처) is the patent office and intellectual property office of South Korea. In 2000, the name of...

field of patents, the phrase "to design around" means to design or invent an alternative to a patented invention that does not infringe the patent's claims...

MicroPatent was a subsidiary of the Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters). It was a commercial source for online patent and trademark information....

Patent law in Aruba is mainly governed by the Patents Regulation (Dutch: Octrooiverordening, formally: landsverordening houdende regels met betrekking...

Unified Patents is a member-based organization whose goal is promoting innovation by protecting against frivolous patent litigation and reducing the number...

leading case law in the area of patent law. For a list of patent law cases in just the United States, see United States patent law cases. Contents:  Top 0–9...

United States Commissioner of Patents from 1933 to 1945. Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Coe led the Patent Office during the New Deal and...

Patent racism refers to systemic barriers and discriminatory practices within patent law in the United States that disproportionately affect minority groups...

1846 – January 17, 1922) was an American patent lawyer and inventor from New York who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895. In 1859, his...

original on March 4, 2012. Patents.Justia.com. "Raphael C. Lee Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications". Justia Patents Search. Retrieved March 21...

November 11, 1993) of Hartland, Wisconsin, U.S., was the inventor of several patented sewing tools and founded June Tailor, Inc. in 1962. Kroenke began sewing...

Another possible influence is the British patent system which had medieval origins and was codified with the Patent Law Amendment Act 1852 (15 & 16 Vict....

of the patent proprietor, they may infringe that patent. Infringement under United Kingdom patent law is defined by Section 60 of the Patents Act 1977...

Patent Pending is the only album by Heavens, a side project formed by Matt Skiba, vocalist and guitarist for Alkaline Trio, and Josiah Steinbrick of F-Minus...

In patent law, a disclaimer are words identifying, in a claim, subject-matter that is not claimed or another writing disclaiming rights ostensibly protected...

individuals or institutions seeking exclusive monopoly control through patents or intellectual property. While bioprospecting is the act of exploring...

Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) is a United States non-profit organization of patent attorneys and patent agents and those working in the patent field...

see conclusion of law Patent claim, a definition of the scope of the protection conferred by a patent or sought in a patent application The assertion...

Under some patent laws, patents may be obtained for insurance-related inventions. Historically, patents could only cover the technological aspects of a...

The United States Patent Classification is an official patent classification system in use and maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office...

The EPC 2000 or European Patent Convention 2000 is the version of the European Patent Convention (EPC) as revised by the Act Revising the Convention on...

Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation is a book about patent medicines by social historian James Harvey...

The Patent Act of 1952 clarified and simplified existing U.S. patent law. It also effected substantive changes, including the codification of the requirement...

a Canadian patent lawyer and agent who founded the patent agency Fetherstonhaugh & Co. He was widely recognized for his expertise in patent law. Fetherstonhaugh...

attempt was made to patent several cedar fence designs. These styles became known as Patent Cedar Fences, also called Patent Fences or Patent Rail Fences. The...

The Wawayanda Patent was a land grant in colonial New York. It was granted in 1703, to John Bridges and eleven associates by the governor of New York and...

Patent insides were preprinted newspaper pages sold to newspaper publishers to provide them with content at a nominal cost, about what the publisher would...

Crouch (born April 30, 1975 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American patent attorney who worked for McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (MBHB)...

order to be registered as a patent agent or patent attorney in the United States, one must pass the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...

Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone...

Although Fuller held more than a dozen patents in the fields of dentistry and golf, the Gilhoolie patent was his only patent for a kitchen device. For several...

In United Kingdom patent law, a certificate of contested validity is an order usually made by the Patent Office, Patents Court (a division of the High...

named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. The process was said to have been discovered independently...

Patentable subject matter in the United States is governed by 35 U.S.C. 101. The current patentable subject matter practice in the U.S. is very different...

however, OPRI no longer receives patent applications under the global Patent Cooperation Treaty. Historic Belgian patent information was published in semi-annual...

The Evans Bay Patent Slip is a heritage site of the former patent slip located in Evans Bay, in Wellington Harbour in the North Island of New Zealand...

resulted in the formation of General Electric. Edison registered 1,093 patents in the United States. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Michigan...

PatentFreedom is an on-line community of companies that access and share information about non-practicing entities that own and enforce patents primarily...

European Union patent law is a subset of European patent law. It also serves as the superset of the patent laws of the individual member states of the...

Partners Patent may refer to: The Great Nine Partners Patent (1697), land grant in Dutchess County, New York, USA The Little Nine Partners Patent (1706)...

Copyright Clause (also known as the Intellectual Property Clause, Copyright and Patent Clause, or the Progress Clause) describes an enumerated power listed in...

associated with patent law and patent-related institutions. For a list of notable inventors, see list of inventors. For a list of notable patent attorneys,...

President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law which proclaimed that patents were to be authorized for "any useful art...

Kerr's Patent Revolver was an unusual 5-shot single-action revolver manufactured from 1859 to 1866 by the London Armoury Company. It was used by Confederate...

the patent owner from reselling the umbrella to third parties. Or if a piece of software containing a patented algorithm is distributed by the patent owner...

Kramer in 1979. In 1981 Kramer filed for a UK patent. UK patent 2115996 was issued in 1985, and U.S. Patent 4,667,088 was issued in 1987. In 1988 Kramer's...

raise intellectual property considerations in copyright, trademark, design patent, and related laws. The copyright status of a typeface and of any font file...

when this does not naturally close after birth it is referred to as a patent (open) foramen ovale (PFO). It is common in patients with a congenital atrial...

In United States patent law, a petition to make special (PTMS) is a formal request submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...

European Classification (ECLA) is a former patent classification system maintained by the European Patent Office (EPO). The ECLA classification system...

Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) is an online service provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to allow users to see the...

is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated." However, the Court allowed patenting of complementary DNA, which contains...

United States Patent and Trademark Office named its first regional office, in Detroit, Michigan, the "Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional Patent Office". Elijah...

intellectual property law in Australia. The agency manages the registration of patents, trade marks, registered designs and plant breeder's rights in Australia...

In United States patent law, inequitable conduct is a breach of the applicant's duty of candor and good faith during patent prosecution or similar proceedings...

Chinese patent medicine (CPM, simplified Chinese: 科学中药; traditional Chinese: 科學中藥; pinyin: kēxúe zhōngyào; lit. 'scientific Chinese medicine' or simplified...

use of the process. Film shot with cameras built according to Le Prince's patent were presented. Eventually, the court ruled in Edison's favour, however...

Holland Patent High School is a U.S. high school located in Holland Patent, New York, a village in Oneida County, central New York State, about 12 miles...

Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform (CFCPR) is an ad hoc organization of companies who are lobbying for reforms to the US patent system. They are opposed...

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (Turkish: Türk Patent ve Marka Kurumu or TÜRKPATENT) (TURKPATENT) is an intellectual property organization with...

v Comptroller-General of Patents, ex parte Tomlinson [1899] 1 QB 909 (CA), or Ex parte Tomlinson, is a United Kingdom patent case concerning standing...

Peruna was a well-known patent medicine sold from the late-19th to mid-20th century. It was invented by Samuel Brubaker Hartman and was endorsed by hundreds...

before the European Patent Office (EPO) is an ex parte, administrative procedure, which includes the filing of a European patent application, the examination...

Intellectual property assets such as patents are the core of many organizations and transactions related to technology. Licenses and assignments of intellectual...

Fisk metallic burial cases were patented in 1848 by Almond Dunbar Fisk and manufactured in Providence, Rhode Island. The cast-iron coffins or burial cases...

The patent theatres were the theatres that were licensed to perform "spoken drama" after the Restoration of Charles II as King of England, Scotland and...

The European Patent Convention (EPC), the multilateral treaty providing the legal system according to which European patents are granted, contains provisions...

saw the potential of the design for a mechanical reaper, he applied for a patent to claim it as his own invention. He worked for 28 years on a horse-drawn...

The Patent and Trademark Office Society (PTOS) is an American society of intellectual property professionals. The society publishes a quarterly journal...

South Korean Patent Act is a government enactment meant to facilitate technological development and contribute to industrial development of the entire...

States, a valid patent provides its proprietor with the right to exclude others from practicing the invention claimed in that patent. A person who practices...

The Federal Patent Court (German: Bundespatentgericht, pronounced [bʊndəspaˈtɛntɡəʁɪçt] ; abbreviation: BPatG) is a German federal court competent for...

French type of patent that ceased to exist in 1968. The name was a common abbreviation for "Breveté Sans Garantie Du Gouvernement“ (patent without government...

possible and remains standard on airplanes of all kinds. Their first U.S. patent, written in March 1903, before their first flight at Kitty Hawk, did not...

9.3663733 The Swiss Federal Patent Court is a Swiss federal court competent for particular legal matters, such as patent cases. It has its seat in Sankt...

The Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) is a database containing patent applications and grants from 44 of the world's patent issuing authorities. Compiled...

The European Convention relating to the formalities required for patent applications was signed at Paris on December 11, 1953. Its aim was to "simplify...

Projector is a 19th-century term in United States patent law meaning the original true inventor. "True inventor" at the time meant the first inventor to...

everyday use—was invented in 1886, when the German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Commercial cars became widely available during the...

The Patent Leather Pug is a 1925 American silent sports drama film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Billy Sullivan, Ruth Dwyer, and J.P. McGowan...

Article 83 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) relates to the disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention. This legal provision...

the European Patent Convention (EPC) relates to the amendments under the EPC, i.e. the amendments to a European patent application or patent, and notably...

The Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) is the patent office of Denmark. As of 2013, its director general was Jesper Kongstad. Sune Stampe Sørensen...

proposals have been presented by different entities. In Norway, a first patent on this structure was presented in 1923 by Trygve Olsen ("Submerged pontoon...

other patents from IBM. Other companies cited as patent holders include AT&T (two patents) and Canon Inc. Absent from the list is U.S. patent 4,698,672...

A patent model was a handmade miniature model no larger than 12" by 12" by 12" (approximately 30 cm by 30 cm by 30 cm) that showed how an invention works...

hence "observation of beautiful forms". It was first published in the patent that was granted on July 10, 1817. Multiple reflection by two or more reflecting...

businessman, known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors. He was awarded U.S. patent 371,207 on October 11, 1887. Alexander...

delivered in 1888. The design patent was filed in February in the same year and granted in December. The invention was not patented in the name of Scott, as...

For a patent to be valid in Canada, the invention claimed therein needs to be new and inventive. In patent law, these requirements are known as novelty...

In 1812, Putnam County was detached from Dutchess. Fourteen royal land patents were granted between 1685 and 1706 covering the entirety of the original...

Scott Patent Hill is a mountain in Schoharie County, New York and partially in Albany County, New York. It is located south-southeast of Livingstonville...

A column still, also called a continuous still, patent still or Coffey still, is a variety of still consisting of two columns. Column stills can produce...

In European patent law, the limitation and revocation procedures before the European Patent Office (EPO) are post-grant, ex parte, administrative procedures...

pandemic and the resulting social-distancing measures. The patent commons consists of all patented software which has been made available to the open source...

The fees due at the European Patent Office (EPO) in relation to a European patent application are laid out in the Rules relating to Fees of 20 October...

International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, or Budapest Treaty, is an international treaty signed in Budapest...

The patente (or contribution des patentes) is a form of direct tax historically levied on individuals or entities engaged in economic, commercial, industrial...

Canada (Commissioner of Patents) [2002] 3 S.C.R. 519, 2002 SCC 68 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada case concerning the patentability of higher life forms...

Law of Patents is a United Kingdom patent law treatise of the twentieth century. Sir William Aldous "In the United Kingdom, the great patent treatise...

A utility model is a patent-like intellectual property right to protect inventions. This type of right is available in many countries but, notably, not...

soap box and a broom handle. After refining the design and obtaining a patent for the Electric Suction Sweeper he set about producing it himself, assisted...

Inc. vs Samsung Inc., 580 U.S. 53, is the general title of a series of patent infringement lawsuits between Apple Inc. and Samsung Inc. in the United...

telephone, creating Bell's patent. That first patent by Bell was the master patent of the telephone, from which other patents for electric telephone devices...

1888, she obtained a patent for the Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels, becoming the second African-American woman to receive a patent. Miriam Benjamin was...

The Visegrad Patent Institute (VPI; Czech: Visegrádský Patentový Institut; Slovak: Vyšehradský Patentový Inštitút; Hungarian: Visegrádi Szabadalmi Intézet;...

was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research at General Motors...

approved Japanese patent application, published for opposition, in contrast to the kokai, the published ("laid-open"), unexamined Japanese patent application...

Patent Bending is a Canadian reality television series that premiered August 22, 2006, on the Discovery Channel. The series is based on building some of...

In United States patent law, an interference proceeding, also known as a priority contest, is an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues...

computer programs are explicitly mentioned in statutory United States patent law. Patent law has changed to address new technologies, and decisions of the...

The Kitchen rudder is the familiar name for "Kitchen's Patent Reversing Rudders", a combination rudder and directional propulsion delivery system for relatively...

procedure is being used in the fields of the Schengen acquis, divorce law, patents, property regimes of international couples, and European Public Prosecutor...

German and Austrian patent laws, the Gebrauchsmuster (GebrM), also known as German utility model or Austrian utility model, is a patent-like, intellectual...

States patent law, the on-sale bar is a limitation on patentability codified at 35 U.S.C. § 102. It provides that an invention cannot be patented if it...

Nickerson designed the machinery to mass-produce the blades, and he received patents for hardening and sharpening them. (Nickerson was later elected to Gillette's...

also known as Sir Johannes Hardenbergh, was the owner of the Hardenbergh patent of land in the Catskill Mountains of New York, United States. He was born...

the world. The five patent offices are the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the...

in his father's gun shop and was awarded the first of his 128 firearm patents on October 7, 1879, at the age of 24. He is regarded as one of the most...

published in the city of Milwaukee. Aikens is regarded as the creator of the "patent inside" preprinted sheet in 1863 — an early form of syndicated news and...

often request from the owner of an intellectual property right (usually a patent) that is, or may become, essential to practice a technical standard. Put...

license, or marketing of intellectual property assets. This may include patents, trademarks, or inventions (prototypes). Inventors are faced with several...

of U.S. patents, as of 2011.[verification needed] Its business model focuses on buying patents and aggregating those patents into a large patent portfolio...

on U.S. Patent Re. 32,115, U.S. Patent 4,567,359, and U.S. Patent 5,309,355 held by Lockwood. Furthermore, the court ruled that the '355 patent was invalid...

in 1906 and received the Canadian patent in 1907 (CA103387, U.S. patent CA103387A) and US patent in 1911 (U.S. patent 1,003,657) for a manufacturing machine...

document written by an examiner in a patent or trademark examination procedure and mailed to an applicant for a patent or trademark. The expression is used...

S. patent system since the Patent Act of 1952 and closely resembles previously proposed legislation in the Senate in its previous session (Patent Reform...

the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the under secretary is responsible for administering laws relevant to granting patents and trademarks, and...

(born February 22, 1989) is an American materials scientist, attorney, and patent examiner. From 2008 to 2026, she was listed by Guinness World Records as...

The Great Nine Partners Patent, also known as the "Lower Nine Partners Patent," was a land grant in Dutchess County, New York, made on May 27, 1697, by...

born when the German physicist and engineer Werner Jacobi developed and patented the first known integrated transistor amplifier in 1949 and the British...

payment patent settlements, also known as "pay-for-delay" agreements, are a type of agreement that has been used to settle pharmaceutical patent infringement...

internal-combustion-engined automobile over a long distance, field testing the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, inventing brake lining and solving several practical issues...

It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or royal charter. There are currently 76 such cities in the United Kingdom:...

between the vehicles. Originally known as Janney couplers (the original patent name) they are almost always referred to as knuckles in the US and Canada...

pitched his version of the wheeled suitcase, for which he was granted a patent in 1972, to various department stores before it was picked up and sold at...

patent–eligibility of software patent claims. The Federal Circuit reversed the district court's summary judgment ruling that all claims were patent–ineligible...

administrative regulations, and decrees in the areas of trademark, copyright, and patent. China first began accepting foreign IP concepts when foreign countries...

The United States Patents Quarterly (U.S.P.Q.) is a United States legal reporter published by the Bloomberg Industry Group in Washington, D.C. The U.S...

(1934-09-25) U.S. patent 2,949,550 — Electrokinetic apparatus (1960-08-16) U.S. patent 3,018,394 — Electrokinetic transducer (1962-01-23) U.S. patent 3,022,430...

States Patent and Trademark Office board of appeals, i.e. the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) concerning the standard for patent eligible...

Elektrozubehör AG, was granted patent DE 489 003 in 1930 for a Stecker mit Erdungseinrichtung ('plug with earthing device'). Büttner's patent DE 370 538 is often...

include: U.S. patent 226,455 Thomas Parker, Jeremiah B. Tainter, Andrew Tainter & James Downing, "Sluiceway-gate." Issued April 13, 1880. U.S. patent 241,443...

never to become operational. During this period Tesla filed numerous patents associated with the basic functions of his system, including transformer...

under the patent and trademark law of many jurisdictions which allows third parties to formally challenge the validity of a pending patent application...

business. On November 3, 1914, the U.S. Patent Office issued the first U.S. patent for the "Backless Bra". Crosby's patent was for a lightweight, soft, and comfortable...

patents are granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) under the legal provisions of the European Patent Convention (EPC). However, European patents...

application for a utility patent (patent application publication), patent, plant patent application publication, plant patent, or design patent) and the level of...

are found in different forms, from primitive common sails to the advanced patent sails. The jib sail is found in Mediterranean countries and consists of...

is the Portuguese office which deals with the protection of trademarks, patents, utility models and industrial design. Its headquarters is in downtown...

Under United States patent law a prosecution disclaimer is a statement made by a patent applicant during examination of a patent application which can...

different people, and led to an array of lawsuits relating to the conflicting patent claims made by several individuals and numerous companies. Notable people...

Kies (March 21, 1752 – 1837) was an American inventor. On May 5, 1809, her patent for a new technique of weaving straw with silk and thread to make hats was...

organization that was formed to combat patent assertion entities (PAEs), also known as patent trolls, by cross-licensing patents that fall into the hands of PAEs...

began development of his open-chamber gun in the late 1940s. Dardick's patent 2,847,784, issued in August 1958, is for a pre-stressed open-chamber gun...

Systems. He was once the anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog, focusing on the subject of "patent trolls" and "a must-read blog among top intellectual...

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is an administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which decides issues of...

the Convention on the Grant of European Patents and sometimes referred to as the London Protocol, is a patent law agreement concluded in London on 17...

sued former Aetna CEO John Rowe for infringement of a tax patent. The patent, U.S. patent 6,567,790, entitled "Establishing and managing grantor retained...

The Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) is a proposed international patent law treaty aimed at harmonizing substantive points of patent law. In contrast...

patent, U.S. Patent 2,684,670. After the partnership broke up in 1954, Mathison continued improving his E-meters with additional patents (U.S. patent...

published, unexamined Japanese patent application, in contrast to the kokoku or tokkyo kōhō, the examined and approved Japanese patent application. Kōkai means...

patent can sometimes be a way to avoid infringing it. For patent infringement, identification commonly involves comparing the language of the patent claims...

Dahl on the death of his daughter". No. 3 February 2015. The Telegraph. GB patent 1010067, Wade, Stanley Charles, "Hydrocephalus shunt pump", issued 17 November...

The United Kingdom patent 394325 'Improvements in and relating to Sound-transmission, Sound-recording and Sound-reproducing Systems' is a fundamental work...

the patent, from the time the patent is granted. Any person who does any of these acts in relation to an invention without permission of the patent owner...

to its patent law in 2005, just before the laws came into effect, which played a key role in the rejection of the patent application. The patent application...

This is a list of notable patent law cases in the United States in chronological order. The cases have been decided notably by the United States Supreme...

in the regulations annexed to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) that relate to the search and examination of patent applications concerning computer...

versions of the boats. Initially patented in 1891, the concept has undergone a number of changes and subsequent patents. The engine consists of a boiler...

the European Patent Office (EPO) is a post-grant, contentious, inter partes, administrative procedure intended to allow any European patent to be centrally...

teacher and researcher". Robertson's assignment of the rights to his tethelin patent (BR.15, BR.16) to the University of California (UC.6) in September 1917...

The Patent and Designs Act 1911 is a now-defunct law concerning intellectual property in Bangladesh. It included several key definitions, including of...

Donald W. McKenzie, an employee of Stark Bros Nursery, obtained a US plant patent for the cultivar on October 15, 1974. It is a relatively new introduction...

to his patent application U.S. patent D47789 in 1915 for the design of what became the Raggedy Ann doll, Gruelle patented his design U.S. patent D56149...

the British patent index for the patents listed below, but some texts use Lemuel Willman Wright to refer to the author of the same patents. There are contemporary...

legal doctrine of United States patent law, according to which a device that appears to literally infringe a patent claim, by including elements or limitations...

mirrors or a transparent diffractive-filter array. Bryce Bayer's patent (U.S. Patent No. 3,971,065) in 1976 called the green photosensors luminance-sensitive...

of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in order to commercialize UCSF's patents for work done there by Eolas' co-founders, as part of the Visible Embryo...

June 2014 by the five "IP5" offices, i.e. the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)...

Patents for Humanity is an awards program run by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Obama administration started the initiative in February...

A patent court is a court specializing in patent law, or having substantially exclusive jurisdiction over patent law issues. In some systems, such courts...

infringe a patent on the variety, which only allows the patent owner to prohibit making, using, or selling (first sale, but not resale) the patented invention...

Japanese patents expired on 20 June 2004, and the Canadian patent expired on 7 July 2004. Consequently, while Unisys has further patents and patent applications...

an agency of the federal administration of Switzerland responsible for patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs and copyright...

supplied to it. In 1979, Newman attempted to patent the device, but it was rejected by the United States Patent Office as being a perpetual motion machine...

Radithor was a radioactive patent medicine brand of distilled water containing at least 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium-226 and 228 isotopes,...

the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) concerning the patentability of mathematical...

1958) was an American pioneering parachutist and inventor of several patented parachute designs. A trailblazer in aviation safety, he is credited as...

patent prosecution process may result in a patent issued much later than normally expected (see submarine patents). The various MP3-related patents expired...

Alan), that is used to count drum strokes. Drumometer is patented technology protected by US Patent #6,545,207. The Drumometer is accepted by Guinness World...

the first cars, introduced by Carl Benz in 1894 as the followup to the Patent-Motorwagen. 67 Benz Velos were built in 1894 and 134 in 1895. The early...

German term for persons or families ennobled by letters patent. The oldest known such letters patent were issued in the middle of the 14th century, during...

(Commissioner of Patents) is a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal concerning the patentability of business methods within the context of the Patent Act. At...

earliest known stud-and-socket interlocking building brick systems, based on a patent filed in 1932 by company engineer Ernest E. Tompkins two years after the...

exhaustion doctrine in patent law in which the Court held that after the sale of a patented item, the patent holder cannot sue for patent infringement relating...

S. patent RE124 – Revolving gun U.S. patent 1,304 – Improvement in firearms U.S. patent 7,613 – Revolver U.S. patent 7,629 – Revolver U.S. patent 12,648...

In Indonesia, the Patent Office (Direktorat Jenderal Kekayaan Intelektual, "Directorate General of Intellectual Property") is a governmental agency overseeing...

important advantage of patents (compared to trade secrets) is that patents assure the monopoly of their owners, even when the patented subject matter is independently...

2000. US patent 2838739  US patent 3091746  US patent 3259870  US patent 7153152  US patent WO2004051681  US patent WO2005059969  US patent USD604246 ...

The Defensive Patent License (DPL) is a patent license proposed by Jason Schultz and Jennifer Urban, directors of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public...

lifetime of their patents that are about to expire in order to retain revenues from them. Often the practice includes taking out new patents (for example over...

suction tracheotomy tube patent on May 9, 1960 and the patent was awarded on June 19, 1962. It has been cited 26 times by other patent applications. "Josephine...

the final order of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the recently created adjudicatory arm of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...

by patents held by individual inventors and large electrical manufacturers. As commercial broadcasting emerged in the 1920s, many of these patents were...

In the 1970s, Newmar received two U.S. patents for pantyhose and two for a brassiere, one being a design patent. The pantyhose were described as having...

sub-fields, such as copyright, patent and trademark laws. The list also includes official journals and gazettes of patent offices. Akron Intellectual Property...

Letosteine is a mucolytic patented (U.S. patent 6987120) by Piero del Soldato of Milan, Italy. He filed his application in 2000. Zhou Y, Sun S, Liu H...

narrow the defense of patent misuse to claims for patent infringement. Princo held that a party asserting the defense of patent misuse, absent a case...

double patenting. A selection patent by definition is a patent for a selection of compounds from a larger class of compounds described in a prior patent. The...

Under the European Patent Convention (EPC), any third party –i.e., essentially any person– may file observations on the patentability of an invention which...

American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers...

Telegraph Patent Case, is an 1854 decision of the United States Supreme Court that has been highly influential in the development of the law of patent-eligibility...

records are a US patent and censuses. Reed, from Virginia, is considered the first African American woman to receive a US patent. Patent No. 305,474 for...

Supreme Court decision about patent eligibility of business method patents. The issue in the case was whether certain patent claims for a computer-implemented...

was patented in 2002 by Pennsylvanian Robert G. Reid, a postman who had played the game with his family for decades before deciding to file for patent in...

US patent law. The case was a patent dispute between small Toronto-based company i4i Ltd. Partnership and Microsoft for infringement of a patent regarding...

developed such mice previously. However, OncoMouse was the first mammal to be patented. Because DuPont had funded Philip Leder's research, Harvard University...

S. patent, under the new U.S. patent statute just signed into law by President Washington on April 10, 1790. Hopkins had petitioned for a patent on an...

Utilizing Television Surveillance"). That same year they applied for a patent for their security system. It was granted three years later in 1969. Marie...

The publication provides an overview of the activity in the areas of patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms, plant...

device in patent infringement litigation. It is a convenient and effective means for analyzing and presenting information regarding a patent claim. In...

alleged use of wireless patents during World War I. The case involved four patents: two issued to Marconi, including U.S. Patent No. 763,772 and reissue...

and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Before the invention of electromagnetic...

In re Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. Patent Litig., 982 F.2d 1527 (Fed. Cir. 1992) was a case decided in 1992 by the United States Court of Appeals...

– 3 March 1928, Düsseldorf) was a Dutch inventor who conceived of and patented an idea for machine encryption, the rotor machine, although he was not...

a patent for a "Glass Working Machine" that could make hollow-bodied glass containers like bottles. The patent was granted on March 7, 1899, Patent Number...

Patent Reform Act of 2007 (H.R. 1908, S. 1145) was a bill introduced in the 110th United States Congress to introduce changes in United States patent...

processors and artificial intelligence chips. The company holds essential patents for global mobile communication standards including 5G, 4G, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA...

all inventions in the United States for which a patent is filed or granted (35 U.S.C. § 181). Every patent application is reviewed, and thousands of inventions...

developed and patented several ophthalmic surgical techniques, including the procedure for pars plana vitrectomy for which he filed a patent in 1968. In...

In United States patent law since the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), a derivation proceeding is a trial proceeding under 35 U.S.C. § 135 conducted...

MARA Holdings, Inc. (formerly Marathon Digital Holdings and Marathon Patent Group) is an American digital asset technology and cryptocurrency mining company...

on the basis of holding "potentially valuable patents", principally Bell's master telephone U.S. patent 174,465. Upon inception, Hubbard was installed...

States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by an applicant for a patent during the patent prosecution process. There is a duty on all patent applicants...

dresses and swimsuits. The concept of an underwire can be traced to an 1893 patent that describes a breast supporting device using a rigid plate under the...