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	Patent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patents are typically enforced through civil lawsuits (for example, for a US patent, by an action for patent infringement in a United States federal court).
		Patent licensing agreements are effectively contracts in which the patent owner (the licensor) agrees not to sue the licensee for infringement of the licensor's patent rights.
		First, in accordance with the original definition of the term "patent," it is argued that patents facilitate and encourage disclosure of innovations into the public domain for the common good.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patent (2666 words)

	Patent - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful.
		First, in accordance with the original definition of the term "patent," it is argued that awarding patents facilitates and encourages disclosure of innovations into the public domain for the common good.
		Most fundamentally, granting a patent confers a monopoly of sorts upon an owner, because he may legally exclude competitors from using or exploiting the invention (though strictly speaking, the word "monopoly" requires that there is no viable alternative in the marketplace).
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/a/t/Patent.html (5042 words)

	Patent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor or applicant for a limited amount of time (normally 20 years from the filing date).
		Per the word's original definition, one theory of patent legislation is to induce the inventor to disclose knowledge for the advancement of society in exchange for a limited period of exclusivity.
		Different patent systems use different terms and different standards for these concepts, of which the most important probably are: patentable subject matter, novelty, non-obviousness and sufficient disclosure.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Patent (3101 words)

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		However, if the original patent owner tried to copy the inventor's improvement, he or she could sue that original patent owner to exclude him or her from using the improvement without permission.
		The United States, European Union, and Japan, are parties to all of the significant treaties.
		As TRIPS treaty declares the term of an issued patent is twenty years from earliest claimed filing date.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pa/patent.html (2528 words)

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