For Patent we have terms and definitions in 28 topics. The topics are Accounting, Biotechnology, Business, Canadian Law, Customs, Dream, Ethics, Fertility, Finance, Financial Modeling, Genealogy, Genetics and Food, Genome, Government Documents, Historical Study, Horse Health, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights Pro, International Business, International Economics, Law, Legal, Legal Ethics, Medical, Patent, Personal Injury Law, Pharmaceutical and Real Estate.

Patent (Accounting)

is a legal form of protection that provides a person or legal entity with exclusive rights to exclude others from makingusingor selling a concept or invention for the duration of the patent. There are three types of patents available: designplantand utility.

Patent (Biotechnology)

A set of rights given by a federal government to an inventor to protect an invention and prevent others from making, using, or selling it, or claiming it as theirs.

Patent (Business)

A type of copyright granted as a fixed-term monopoly to an inventor by the state to prevent others copying an invention, or improvement of a product or process.

Patent (Canadian Law)

An exclusive privilege granted to an inventor to make, use or sale an invention for a set number of years (eg. in Canada, 17 years). Normally, no one company can retain a monopoly over a product or service because this is considered to economically harmful to society. But as a financial incentive to potential inventors, the state grants a temporary monopoly to that inventor through the issuance of a patent.

Patent (Customs)

A patent is a 17-year grant by the government which covers any new, useful and non-obvious process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter or any new, useful and obvious improvements thereof. The grant is the right to exclude others from making, using or selling the invention for that period of time after which it passes into the public domain. See also Intellectual Property; Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights; Technology; Transfer of Technology; and World Intellectual Property Organization.

Patent (Dream)

To dream of securing a patent, denotes that you will be careful and painstaking with any task you set about to accomplish. If you fail in securing your patent, you will suffer failure for the reason that you are engaging in enterprises for which you have no ability.
If you buy one, you will have occasion to make a tiresome and fruitless journey.
To see one, you will suffer unpleasantness from illness.

Patent (Ethics)

A (special, alienable, prima facie) legal right granted by the government to use, or at least (in the case there are other patents which your use of your patent would infringe) to bar others from using a device, design or type of plant that you have created. (In the US restrictions last for 17 years for useful devices, and 14 years for designs.) To patent a device one must prove that it is useful, original and not obvious. Patents are subject to challenge in court and may be upheld or overturned.

Patent (Fertility)

Open; for example, fallopian tubes should be patent after a sterilization reversal operation

Patent (Finance)

The exclusive right to use documented intellectual property in producing or selling a particular product or using a process for a designated period of time.

Patent (Financial Modeling)

An intangible asset, the exclusive right to sell a product or process for 17 years under government protection.

Patent (Genealogy)

A government grant of property in fee simple to public lands; land grant.

Patent (Genetics and Food)

A government authority or license to a particular individual or organisation conferring a right or title for a set period, particularly the sole right to make use, or sell some invention.

Patent (Genome)

In genetics, conferring the right or title to genes, gene variations, or identifiable portions of sequenced genetic material to an individual or organization.
See also: gene

Patent (Government Documents)

1. The grant of a property right to an inventor.
2. Grants the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention
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Patent (Historical Study)

Granted by a patent authority such as the United States Patents Office, this protects an invention from copies and ensures primacy.

Patent (Horse Health)

Unobstructed, open.

Patent (Intellectual Property)

A patent is a document that embodies a grant from the federal government entitling the patentee (or its assignee(s) or licensee(s)) for a limited period of time to exclude others from making, using, selling, or offering for sale within the United States the invention claimed in the patent. In addition, if the claimed invention is a process, the patentee has the right to exclude others from using, selling, or offering for sale within the United States, or importing into the United States, products made by the claimed process.

To be patentable, an invention must (1) fall within one of one of several classes of subject matter defined by the patent statute, (2) be new or novel, (3) be useful, and (4) be non-obvious. Qualifying subject matter for patents include (a) machines, processes, articles of manufacture and compositions of matter, (b) plants, and (c) ornamental designs for articles of manufacture.

Patent (Intellectual Property Rights Pro)

A legal grant issued by a government permitting an inventor to exclude others from making, using, or selling a claimed invention during the patent's term. The TRIPS Agreement mandates that the term for patent applications filed after June 7, 1995, runs 20 years from the filing date. To receive patent protection, an invention must display patentable subject matter (a process, machine, article of manufacture), originality, novelty, nonobviousness, and utility. Current U.S. law is based on the 1952 Patent Code. As a signatory to the 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the United States belongs to the premier international patent treaty organization, the Paris Union.

Patent (International Business)

A government grant that gives inventors exclusive right of making, using, or selling the invention.

Patent (International Economics)

The legal right to the proceeds from and control over the use of an invented product or process, granted for a fixed period of time, usually 20 years. Patent is one form of intellectual property that is subject of the TRIPS agreement.

Patent (Law)

A grant to an inventor of the right to exclude others for a limited time from make, using, or selling his invention in the United States.

Patent (Legal)

A grant to an inventor of the right to exclude others for a limited time from make, using, or selling his invention in the United States.

Patent (Legal Ethics)

A (special, alienable, prima facie) legal right granted by the government to use, or at least (in the case there are other patents which your use of your patent would infringe) to bar others from using a device, design or type of plant that you have created. (In the US restrictions last for 17 years for useful devices, and 14 years for designs.) To patent a device one must prove that it is useful, original and not obvious. Patents are subject to challenge in court and may be upheld or overturned.
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Patent (Medical)

Not obstructed; open

Patent (Patent)

A document issued by the Patent office that purports to give an inventor the exclusive right to make use and sell an invention as specified in the claims of that patent. A patent, which is the mature form of a patent application, consists of drawings of the invention, a specification explaining it, and claims which define the scope of exclusivity.

Patent (Personal Injury Law)

A government grant giving an inventor the exclusive right to make or sell his or her invention for a term of years.

Patent (Pharmaceutical)

The term used for proprietary medicines, which are, because of research and cost involved in producing many of them, protected by a patent. This means no other company can reproduce the substance other than the patent holder.

Patent (Real Estate)

The instrument that conveys real property from the state or federal government to an individual.

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