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  2. United States patent law - Wikipedia

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    This statute allows the US government to override patent protection (or contract another entity to do so) for public-use purposes. The patent owner can sue for limited compensation. [36] Invention Secrecy Act (1951) Patent Act of 1790, First Patent Act - April 7, 1790; Patent Act of 1836; Patent Act of 1870; Patent Act of 1952; Patent Reform ...

  3. Patent - Wikipedia

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    The ability to assign ownership rights increases the liquidity of a patent as property. Inventors can obtain patents and then sell them to third parties. [71] The third parties then own the patents and have the same rights to prevent others from exploiting the claimed inventions, as if they had originally made the inventions themselves.

  4. Patentable subject matter in the United States - Wikipedia

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    (a) the problem with biological inventions is where the discovery of Nature's work ends and where a human invention begins, i.e. patent monopoly should not encompass a "natural phenomenon or a law of nature". (b) the problem with the software inventions (such as “mathematical algorithms, including those executed on a generic computer,...

  5. Only real people can patent inventions — not AI — US ...

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    The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has said that to obtain a patent a real person must have made a “significant contribution” to the invention and that only a human being can be named ...

  6. Software patents under United States patent law - Wikipedia

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    Neither software nor computer programs are explicitly mentioned in 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 of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) beginning in the latter part of the 20th century have sought to clarify the boundary between patent-eligible and patent ...

  7. Government patent use (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Government patent use law is a statute codified at 28 USC § 1498(a) [1] that is a "form of government immunity from patent claims." [2] [1] Section 1498 gives the federal government of the United States the "right to use patented inventions without permission, while paying the patent holder 'reasonable and entire compensation' which is usually "set at ten percent of sales or less".

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