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Patent Defined
An exclusive privilege granted to an inventor to make, use or sale an invention for a set number of years (eg. in Canada, 17 years). Normally, no one company can retain a monopoly over a product or service because this is considered to economically harmful to society. But as a financial incentive to potential inventors, the state grants a temporary monopoly to that inventor through the issuance of a patent.
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- Product 14.24: Information for purchasing PATSTAT
- OECD patent databases: Triadic Patent Families Database, REGPAT Database, Citations Database.
- [Web] Amazon applying for in-book advertisement patent for Kindle: This is definitely a frightening but at the same time expected development. Everything has to be double monetized these days.
- Amazon applying for in-book advertisement patent for Kindle
- Google Files Digital Signage Patent | Digital Signage and The Hospitality Industry
- LocaModa Granted Patent for Mobile Social Interactive Content
- Bilski at the BPAI - What a Mess (Part 1) - [The 271 Patent Blog]: "...the process of determining patentable subject matter after Bilski has become a weird, metaphysical endeavor. It has gotten to the point that a given claim may receive 4 different interpretation s from 4 different people, and each of them could be arguably correct. In the case of computer-relat ed inventions, the end result of a patentability analysis is rarely supportable with a single, cogent rationale.&quo t;
- Tracking apparatus and associated method for a radio frequency enabled reminder system - Patent 6747555
- New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents - Ars Technica: An explanation of the contents of the Linux patch to circumvent MS patents.
- Collective personal articles tracking - Patent 7088242
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