Self-Help Patenting for Broke-Folk
Publisher: SELF
Published: November 15, 2003
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780970615725
First sentence: A patent is a property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor ["to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States"] for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.