The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to patents: Patent – set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an...

sometimes called intellectual rights. See outline of patents for a topical guide and overview of patents. Some examples of intellectual property include: Artistic...

types of patents. Particular types of patents for inventions include biological patents, business method patents, chemical patents and software patents. Although...

imitation, through for example expired patents and copyright, or publicly disclosed technologies that do not qualify for patent protection.: 22  Derivative works...

Examining Authority. European Patent Organisation Outline of patents Patent offices in Europe Trilateral Patent Offices "Eurasian Patent Organization". www.eapo...

2015-01-10. Retrieved 2015-09-26. "Protecting Your Trademark" (PDF). booklet. US Patent and Trademark Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2015...

infringement or violation of an intellectual property right. There are several types of intellectual property rights, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, industrial...

usually not negotiable. Software patents grant exclusive rights to algorithms, software features, or other patentable subject matter, with coverage varying...

The Patents and Designs Act, 1907 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to the law related to patents and industrial designs. Its provisions...

the Copyright Act of 1975. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) similarly codified restrictions on the patentability of patents credits solely to...

of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...

States Copyright on the content of patents and in the context of patent prosecution Criticism of copyright Criticism of intellectual property Directive...

important advantage of patents (compared to trade secrets) is that patents assure the monopoly of their owners, even when the patented subject matter is...

that ever-expansive monopolies in the form of copyright extensions, software patents, and business method patents harm the public interest. More recently...

worked to prevent the genericization of its plastic building blocks following the expiration of Lego's last major patents in 1978. Lego manuals and catalogs...

ownership of patents more liquid, thereby creating incentives to innovate and patent. Patent Licensing Entities also argue that aggregating patents in the...

creation of such works. Both the term and the concept of a copyright troll began to appear in the mid-2000s. It derives from the pejorative "patent trolls"...

automatically for all creative works as soon as they are fixed in a medium.Two of the most important international copyright treaties include the Berne Convention...

non-provisional application for patent was filed... "Frequently Asked Questions". patents. WIPO. Retrieved 14 October 2024. Patent protection is granted for...

competent for adjudicating patent infringement of national patents, national parts of European patents and Eurasian patents when the infringement takes...

limits the scope of copyright protection by differentiating an idea from the expression or manifestation of that idea. Unlike patents, which may confer...

Altai Inc. Copyfraud Copyleft Copyright aspects of downloading and streaming Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Copyrighted content on file sharing...

published "Antitrust Guidelines for the licensing of Intellectual Property" which apply to patents, copyright, and trade secrets. In January 1996, the...

Part I.2, Implementation of Directive". "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 3A (1)". "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 3A (2)"...

Since the 1980s, the US Patent Office has granted patents on plants, including plant varieties this provides a second way of protecting plant varieties...

development. Patents, also referred to as patents for invention, are the most widespread means of protecting technical inventions. The patent system is designed...

before the passing of the Act (in August 1875) was entitled to registration, whether or not the mark fulfilled these criteria. The Patents, Designs, and Trade...

discoveries, and similar approaches have even been applied to certain patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in...

competitors with no corresponding benefit. In view of the substantial number of patents that the courts invalidate, many businesses now elect to protect commercially...

and application requirements for enforcing other forms of intellectual property, such as patents). It is commonly seen as providing "federal common law"...