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United States is considered to have the most favorable legal regime for inventors and patent owners in the world. Under United States law, a patent is...

statutory United States patent law. Patent law has changed to address new technologies, and decisions of the United States Supreme Court and United States Court...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark...

The history of United States patent law started even before the U.S. Constitution was adopted, with some state-specific patent laws. The history spans...

Under United States patent law, the term of patent, provided that maintenance fees are paid on time, is 20 years from the filing date of the earliest U...

the United States, a valid patent provides its proprietor with the right to exclude others from practicing the invention claimed in that patent. A person...

This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...

US patent law, non-obviousness is one of the requirements that an invention must meet to qualify for patentability, codified as a part of Patent Act...

notable patent law cases in the United States in chronological order. The cases have been decided notably by the United States Supreme Court, the United States...

the modern intellectual property patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law) granting exclusive rights in an...

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...

As with all utility patents in the United States, a biological patent provides the patent holder with the right to exclude others from making, using,...

The X-Patents are all the patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from July 1790 (when the first U.S. patent was issued), to July...

new) Non-obvious (in United States patent law) or involve an inventive step (in European patent law) Useful (in U.S. patent law) or be susceptible of industrial...

Under United States patent law, a continuing patent application is a patent application that follows, and claims priority to, an earlier-filed patent application...

In United States patent law, patent misuse is a patent holder's use of a patent to restrain trade beyond enforcing the exclusive rights that a lawfully...

5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed...

patent law Software patents under United Kingdom patent law – United States patent law – Biological patents in the United States – Software patents under...

After the United States signed the TRIPS Agreement of the WTO in 1995, the standard patent term of 20 years under United States patent law has been measured...

inventive step (or non-obviousness in United States patent law) of an invention. Under United States patent law, the abstract may be called "Abstract...