Outline of patents

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to patents:

Intellectual property
Related topics
Higher categories:
Property and Property law

Patent – set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem and is a product or a process. Patents are a form of intellectual property.

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