Patent

:This article relates to the intellectual property right. A land grant is also called a patent.

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Legal concepts

Assignor estoppel --

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Claim --

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Defensive publication --

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Disclaimer --

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Doctrine of equivalents --

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Essential patent --

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Exhaustion of rights --

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First to file --

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First to invent --

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Industrial applicability --

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Interference proceeding --

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Inventive step --

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Inventor --

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Letters patent --

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Non-obviousness --

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Novelty --

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On-sale bar --

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Patent family --

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Patent infringement --

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Patent misuse --

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Patent pending --

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Patent pool --

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Patentability --

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Person having ordinary skill in the art --

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Petition to make special --

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Prior art --

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Prosecution history estoppel --

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Provisional rights --

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Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing --

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Reduction to practice --

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Research exemption --

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Submarine patent --

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Sufficiency of disclosure --

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Supplementary protection certificate --

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Term of patent --

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Unity of invention --

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Utility

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Special types of patents and patent applications

Biological patent --

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Business method patent --

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Chemical patent --

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Design patent --

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Gebrauchsmuster --

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Kokai --

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Kokoku --

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Patent application

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(see also: Continuing patent application (incl. continuation, divisional and cip) --

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Provisional application) --

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Software patent

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(see also: List of software patents --

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Software patent debate --

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Software patents under the European Patent Convention --

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Software patents under the Patent Cooperation Treaty --

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Software patents under TRIPs Agreement --

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Software patents under U.S. patent law) --

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Utility model

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Organizations and patent offices

Main articles: intellectual property organization and patent office.

Related Topics:
Intellectual property organization - Patent office

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African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) --

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Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) --

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Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) --

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European Patent Organisation (EPO or EPOrg) (incl. European Patent Office) --

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Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) --

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United Kingdom Patent Office --

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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) --

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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

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Treaties, conventions and other legal texts and frameworks

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement) --

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American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA) --

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Budapest Treaty --

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Community Patent (proposed) --

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EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions (proposed, then rejected) --

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EU Directive on the Patentability of Biotechnological Inventions --

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European Patent Convention (EPC) --

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European patent law --

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European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) (proposed) --

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London Agreement (concluded but not in force yet) --

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Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property --

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US Patent Reform Act of 2005 --

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Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) --

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Patent Law Treaty (PLT) --

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Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) (proposed) --

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Statute of Monopolies 1623 --

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Strasbourg Convention --

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United States patent law

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Other

Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (CIPA) --

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esp@cenet --

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Industrial design rights --

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Industrial property --

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INPADOC -

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Intellectual property --

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International Patent Classification (IPC) --

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List of top United States patent recipients --

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Patent attorney --

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Patent clerk --

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Patent model --

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Patent troll --

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X-Patent

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