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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 ...
In the United States, for utility patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, the term of the patent is 20 years from the earliest filing date of the application on which the patent was granted and any prior U.S. or Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications from which the patent claims priority (excluding provisional applications). For patents ...
Patent visualisation is an application of information visualisation. The number of patents has been increasing, [1] encouraging companies to consider intellectual property as a part of their strategy. [2] Patent visualisation, like patent mapping, is used to quickly view a patent portfolio.
Patent analysis is the process of analyzing the texts of patent disclosures and other information (such as priority dates, filing and issuance countries, patent maintenance payments, patent citations, patent infringement actions etc.) from the patent lifecycle.
The Lens, formerly called Patent Lens, is a free searcheable online patent and scholarly literature database, provided by Cambia, an Australia-based non-profit organization. The Lens is an agglomeration database, that takes bibliometric data from other databases (such as Crossref , PubMed , Microsoft Academic and Open Alex ) and combines them ...
This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law.A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial right to exclude others from commercially exploiting the invention, granted to an inventor or their successor in rights in exchange to a public disclosure of the invention.
PATENTSCOPE is a global patent database and search system developed and maintained by the World Intellectual Property Organization. It provides free and open access to a vast collection of international patent documents, including patent applications , granted patents, and related technical information.
The long history of patents and strong protection of patent holders contributes to abuse of the system by patent trolls, which are largely absent in other countries. [citation needed] The US also has an extensive body of case law comprising federal court precedents that have accumulated over more than 200 years.