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An early example of a food patent is the patent granted to RiceTec for basmati rice in 1997. [6] In 1999, a patent was filed for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that was without crust. [7] Agriculture giant Monsanto filed for a patent on certain pig genes in 2004. [8]
Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2) that is new, useful, and non-obvious. A patent is the right to exclude others, for a limited time (usually, 20 years) from profiting from a patented technology without the consent of the patent ...
Patent drawing – drawing in a patent application that illustrates the invention, or some of its embodiments (which are particular implementations or methods of carrying out the invention), or the prior art. Drawings may be required by law to be in a particular form, and the requirements may vary depending on the jurisdiction.
The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
number (required) is a patent number, without leading "US" letters, but with leading "D" letter if patent number contains it, and is required. issue-date (optional) is the date of issuing (granting). inventor (optional) is a name of inventor; it can be a wiki-link, of course. title (optional) is the title of the patent.
Wikipedia entry for Google Patents.Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
3. Keebler Fudge Magic Middles. Neither the chocolate fudge cream inside a shortbread cookie nor versions with peanut butter or chocolate chip crusts survived.
The US patent number without commas; for numeric-only values, commas will be inserted by the template. While the USPTO parser ignores commas, other services (notably Google Patents) cannot handle them. For design or reissued patents prefix with D or RE, respectively; see Patent Search Help for the full list. 2 (optional) Link title.