patent law, an inventor is the person, or persons in United States patent law, who contribute to the claims of a patentable invention. In some patent...

prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted...

the work of others, it can be patented. A patent, if granted, gives the inventor a proprietary interest in the patent over a specific period of time...

communicating findings as to the patentability of an applicant's invention via a written action to inventors/patent practitioners. Examiners are hired...

Colonies, inventors could obtain patents through petition to a given colony's legislature. In 1641, Samuel Winslow was granted the first patent in North...

Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2)...

list of celebrity inventors and their patents. (For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.) After Google released...

litigation. Prior to filing a patent application, inventors sometimes obtain a patentability opinion from a patent agent or patent attorney regarding whether...

Patent, patent, patently, or patency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A patent is a set of rights granted by a government to an inventor. Patent may...

Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner...