Assertion: invention | /r/HasProperty | improvement
Facets:
value: over prior art
type: OTHER
value: as in most patents
type: OTHER
value: on something
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: If your invention is an "improvement" to an invention currently under protection of patents by others, your patent search may help you understand whether you will need licenses from others before you can start making and selling your own version in their countries.
text: Useful: For an invention to be patentable, it needs to have a use or application or be an improvement on something that already exists.
text: As in most patents, the inventions he described were improvements over prior art.