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A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention. The procedure for granting patents, the 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 patent application must include one or more claims defining the invention which must be new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable. In many countries, certain subject areas are excluded from patents, such as business methods and mental acts. The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent others from making, using, selling, or distributing the 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 inventions, in all fields of technology, and the term of protection available should be minimum twenty years. Different types of patents may have varying patent terms (i.e., durations). From Wikipedia under the
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Q. I am a student in sixth form, so on a budget. But I have a money making idea, so i'd like some help filing for a patent. Can you recommend a good patent attorney that provides their services for a good price. Asked by Lovebugandhoney - Fri Feb 22 14:02:08 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Before you do that you must read this book. It will save you a lot of time and money on items that either already exist or won't sell. I had lots of good ideas and this book showed me how to avoid wasting my time on ideas that would not sell. And the book is less than $20.00. A real bargain. The book is "Will It Sell? How to Determine If Your Invention Is Profitably Marketable (Before Wasting Money on a Patent) " Answered by geoff_hazel - Fri Feb 22 19:04:24 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Patent" A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable. ContentsSourced
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