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  2. Patent - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent

    A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, ...

  3. United States patent law - Wikipedia

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    The issue of novelty often arises during patent examination, because of inadvertent and/or partial disclosures by inventors themselves prior to filing a patent application. [citation needed] Unlike the laws of most countries, the US patent law provides for a one-year grace period in cases of inventor's own prior disclosure. [28]

  4. Method (patent) - Wikipedia

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    A method patent claim can be infringed only when a single person or entity (including contractually obligated agents) practices all of the claimed steps. [5] Neither a physical device, such as a product that can be used to practice the method, nor instructions for practicing the method, are infringing until they are used by a single person to ...

  5. Patent family - Wikipedia

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    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 in a country – the priority application – is extended to other countries. [1]

  6. Patent claim - Wikipedia

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    In most jurisdictions, a patent is a right to exclude others from making, using, importing, selling or offering for sale the subject matter defined by the claims when the claim is for a thing (apparatus, composition of matter, system, etc.).

  7. Outline of patents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_patents

    A patent can be described as all of the following: Property – one or more components (rather than attributes), whether physical or incorporeal, of a person's estate; or so belonging to, as in being owned by, a person or jointly a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation or even a society.