Patent Basics
Here is some important information about patents
What is a patent?
- A Property Right:
- Right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale a claimed invention
- Territorial: Protection only in territory that granted patent: NO WORLDWIDE PATENT.
Types of patents
–Utility: Any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter.
– Design: A new original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
– Plant: Any distinct and new plant variety invented or discovered and asexually reproduced.