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*as of ‘9 NOVEMBER 2023’*
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/ˈpætənt/ or /ˈpeɪtənt/
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-a patent is a set of ‘exclusive rights’ granted by a ‘sovereign state’ to an [‘inventor’ / ‘assignee’] for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an ‘invention’-
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(an ‘invention’ is a ‘solution’ to a specific technological problem)
(it also a ‘product’ or a ‘process’)
(‘patents’ are a form of ‘intellectual property’)
(the procedure for granting ‘patents’, requirements placed on the patentee, and the extent of the ‘exclusive rights’ vary widely between countries according to ‘national laws’ and ‘international agreements’)
(typically, however, a granted patent application must include one or more ‘claims’ that define the ‘invention’)
(a ‘patent’ may include many ‘claims’, each of which defines a specific ‘property right’)
(these claims must meet relevant ‘patentability’ requirements, such as ‘novelty’, ‘usefulness’, and ‘non-obviousness’)
(the ‘exclusive right’ granted to a ‘patentee’ in most countries is the right to prevent others, or at least to try to prevent others, from commercially making, using, selling, importing, or distributing a patented invention without permission)
(under the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ‘Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights’, patents should be available in WTO member states for any invention, in all fields of technology, and the ‘term of protection’ available should be a minimum of ’20 years’)
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(nevertheless, there are variations on what is ‘patentable subject matter’ from ‘country’ to ‘country’)
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