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Entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, venture capital investors and others are often faced with important decisions related to patents: • file a patent application for a new invention • commercialize or use a product that may infringe another party’s patent • invest in a business that has a patent • enforce a patent against an infringer • defend against a patent infringement suit • sell, purchase or license a patent Although these issues involve analysis that should be performed by a How to Read Patents: Front Page US 6,957,593 Front pages of patents are packed with useful information. But if you do not know how to read a patent, the front page can also be very confusing. This is what you need to know to get started: Patent Number (1) Each patent is assigned a unique sequentially generated number that is used to identify the patent (see “( 1)” on the example patent). Patent attorneys often refer to a patent by the last three digits of the patent number. For instance, the example patent might be referred to as “the ‘593 patent.” Inventor(s) (3) and (5) Each patent has at least one inventor who is a person not a company. The last name of the first listed inventor is indicated at ( 3). Patent attorneys also refer to patents by the inventor name listed at ( 3). The example patent might be referred to as “the Burns patent.” All of the inventors in a patent are listed at ( 5) along with their city, state (if applicable), and country of residence. In the case of multiple inventor...

If you’ve ever purchased a product, read a book, or watched a movie (read: everyone currently on this page), then you’ve likely seen four symbols time and time again: ™, ®, ©, and ℠. They can be large or close to microscopic. No matter how small, however, they are powerful and convey a lot of meaning. So what’s the deal with each, and what makes them different from each other? Let’s decode the symbol soup. What does the trademark symbol (™) mean? A trademark, first recorded in the mid-1500s, literally is the mark (as a name or trade). Trademarks are often claimed with the ™ Using the trademark superscript could mean that the claimed product is in the process of registering for a government registered trademark (more on that in a bit). It could also mean that the person using it considers the unregistered product unique. Even things that are denied government protection registered trademark can continue to use the ™ symbol. Some word processors like Google Docs automatically change TM into ™, while others, like Microsoft Word, require you to use Ctrl+Alt+T or type ™. Access to the symbol isn’t restricted to word processors, though. trademarked. What does the registered symbol ® mean? If trademarks were basketball, the ® superscript symbol would be the NBA and ™ would be the pickup games at your local gym. The ® on a product means that it’s a registered trademark, meaning the brand name or logo is protected by (officially registered in) the US Patent and Trademark Office, wh...

• v • t • e Patent infringement is the commission of a prohibited act with respect to a patented commercial (or to have a commercial purpose) to constitute patent infringement. [ citation needed] The scope of the patented invention or the extent of protection Patents are territorial, and infringement is only possible in a country where a patent is in force. For example, if a patent is granted in the United States, then anyone in the United States is prohibited from making, using, selling or importing the patented item, while people in other countries may be free to exploit the patented invention in their country. The scope of protection may vary from country to country, because the patent is examined – or in some countries not substantively examined – by the Overview [ ] Typically, a party (other than the patentee or licensee of the patentee) that manufactures, imports, uses, sells, or offers for sale patented technology without permission/license from the patentee, during the term of the patent and within the country that issued the patent, is considered to infringe the patent. The test varies from country to country, but in general it requires that the infringing party's product (or method, service, and so on) falls within one or more of the In response to allegations of infringement, an accused infringing party typically asserts one or more of the following: • that it was not practicing the patented invention, i.e. the invention claimed in the patent (the claims define ...

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Michelle P. Scott is a New York attorney with extensive experience in tax, corporate, financial, and nonprofit law, and public policy. As General Counsel, private practitioner, and Congressional counsel, she has advised financial institutions, businesses, charities, individuals, and public officials, and written and lectured extensively. • A letters patent is a type of legal instrument, in the form of a published written order, issued by a governing power, such as a king, president, head of state, or head of a corporation, that gives a person an exclusive right, privilege, title, or office. • A letters patent is not sealed. Instead, it is open for public viewing at the patent and trademark office or another appropriate venue. • A letters patent gives the rights of an invention to a person or entity for a limited period, usually for 20 years. Understanding Letters Patent Letters patent are predominately an English topic, as they are issued for appointing representatives of the Crown, such as governors and governors-general of Commonwealth realms, as well as appointing a Royal Commission. In the United Kingdom, they are issued for the creation of peers of the realm. Rights to a patent are effective only in the jurisdiction that granted the patent. The new invention is required to provide a different way of doing something or a unique solution. The opposite of letters patent is letters close, which are personal in nature and sealed so that only the recipient can read their co...