-
ought beſides, are
contained in charters, or
letters patent, that is, open letters,
literae patentes: ſo
called becauſe they are not ſealed up, but expoſed...
- read. They are
called "letters" (plural) from
their Latin name
litterae patentes, used by
medieval and
later scribes when the do****ents were
written in...
- of law, an
invention is
patentable if it
meets the
relevant legal conditions to be
granted a
patent. By extension,
patentability also
refers to the substantive...
-
software patent is a
patent on a
piece of software, such as a
computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm. The
validity of
these patents can be...
-
procedures relating to
patent law and practice, such as
filing patent applications and
oppositions to
granted patents. The term "
patent attorney" is used differently...
- An
essential patent or standard-essential
patent (SEP) is a
patent that
claims an
invention that must be used to
comply with a
technical standard. Standard-setting...
- A
patent office is a
governmental or
intergovernmental organization which controls the
issue of
patents. In
other words, "
patent offices are government...
- The X-
Patents are all the
patents issued by the
United States Patent and
Trademark Office from July 1790 (when the
first U.S.
patent was issued), to July...
- A
patent family is a set of
patents or
patent applications in
various countries in
relation to a
single invention, for
example when a
first application...
- The
European patent with
unitary effect, also
known as the
unitary patent, is a
European patent which benefits from
unitary effect in the parti****ting...
