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A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable.
The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent or exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell or importing the claimed invention. The rights given to the patentee do not include the right to make, use, or sell the invention themselves. The patentee may have to comply with other laws and regulations to make use of the claimed invention. So, for example, a pharmaceutical company may obtain a patent on a new drug but will be unable to market the drug without regulatory approval, or an inventor may patent an improvement to a particular type of laser, but be unable to make or sell the new design without a license from the owner of an earlier broader patent covering lasers of that type.
The term "patent" originates from the Latin word patere which means "to lay open" (i.e., make available for public inspection) and the term letters patent, which originally denoted royal decrees granting exclusive rights to certain individuals or businesses.
German inventor patents process for powering car using dead cats among other things. Apparently its cheap, environmentally friendly and doesn't damage your vehicle ..
The health minister of Thailand, Mongkol na Songkhla, has announced that the country will override international drug patents if pharmaceutical companies do not significantly lower their prices to make medications affordable to the country's poor. Specifically, he cited drugs for cancer and heart disease.
The brand name shoe manufacturer Steve Madden announces the release of a new womens dress flat shoe range. The range are available in patent black or red, in womens sizes 5.5 to 10. Zappos is currently the only online shoe vendor to stock this new range.
My Online Toolbox has many user friendly tools such as; A Home page tailored for each specific user in your company, patent-pending Workflow queue allowing you to work on multiple open items simultaneously without losing your place, and Robust Searching Features.
MotionDSP stunned the world with its military-grade digital video enhancement system back in 2006. Now MotionDSP did it again, as it announces a patent-pending Copyright Detection Technology that matches content solely on the video content. The Ikena Copyright™ works on clips and movies, regardless of format, compression or aspect ratio…