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.