A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited...

of law, an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive...

letters patent has evolved into the modern intellectual property patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law) granting...

procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently...

A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm. A patent is a set of exclusionary...

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile and...

An essential patent or standard-essential patent (SEP) is a patent that claims an invention that must be used to comply with a technical standard. Standard-setting...

starting from the filing date of the patent application or from the date of grant of the patent. In most patent laws, annuities or maintenance fees have...

"Patent pending" (sometimes abbreviated by "pat. pend." or "pat. pending") or "patent applied for" are legal designations or expressions that can be used...

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...