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A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention. Patents benefit inventors by providing them with legal protection of their inventions. However, patents also benefit the society by providing public access to technical information about these inventions, and thus accelerating innovation.
Patents are territorial rights, which means that your invention is protected only in the countries or regions where you have received a patent. In other words, if a patent has not been granted, or recognized, in a given country, the invention will not be protected in that country.
A patent owner has the right to decide who may – or may not – use the patented invention for the period in which the invention is protected. In other words, patent protection means that the invention cannot be commercially made, used, distributed, imported, or sold by others without the patent owner's consent.
2 lut 2024 · What a patent protects. Use a patent to protect your technical inventions: new products or services which involve an inventive step and have industrial application. If you want to know if something similar to your invention has already been patented, read the European Patent Office 's patent search FAQ and consult the Espacenet database .
Capitalism. 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 period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. [1]
28 kwi 2021 · How exactly do patents protect the invention? To provide an answer to a curious reader, we need to go back to basics: The so-called complete specification discloses the features of the invention, be it a product or a process, and consists of four parts: description, claims, abstract and drawings.