Patents - Practice And Procedure

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Patents - Practice And Procedure

Patents provide protection for inventions, and in particular

provide a right to prevent third parties making, using, selling, or

otherwise commercially exploiting the invention which is defined by

the claims of the patent. New products, and articles which function

in a new way are patentable, as are machines, methods, processes,

compounds and compositions. However, the item to be patented has to

be new and unobvious at the date of the application for the

patent.

First Steps

An initial patent application is filed with a specifica...

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