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Adobe distributed its Adobe Reader (now Acrobat Reader) program free of charge from version 2.0 onwards, [6] and continued supporting the original PDF, which eventually became the de facto standard for fixed-format electronic documents. [7] In 2008 Adobe Systems' PDF Reference 1.7 became ISO 32000:1:2008.
PDF documents can also contain display settings, including the page display layout and zoom level in a Viewer Preferences object. Adobe Reader uses these settings to override the user's default settings when opening the document. [43] The free Adobe Reader cannot remove these settings.
A patent applicant may include a copyright notice or mask work notice, but only if it also includes the following authorization, expressly permitting the reproduction of the patent: [9] A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to (copyright or mask work) protection.
This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) became fully effective in March 2013, and its impact over the last five years continues to disrupt U.S. patent practice.
The original patent term under the 1790 Patent Act was decided individually for each patent, but "not exceeding fourteen years". The 1836 Patent Act (5 Stat. 117, 119, 5) provided (in addition to the fourteen-year term) an extension "for the term of seven years from and after the expiration of the first term" in certain circumstances, when the inventor hasn't got "a reasonable remuneration for ...
When a patent application is published, the invention disclosed in the application becomes prior art and enters the public domain (if not protected by other patents) in countries where a patent applicant does not seek protection, the application thus generally becoming prior art against anyone (including the applicant) who might seek patent ...
The USPTO's free distribution service only distributes the patent documents as a set of TIFF files. [101] Numerous free and commercial services provide patent documents in other formats, such as Adobe PDF and CPC.