Assertion: patent | /r/HasProperty | granted
Facets:
value: hereafter
type: OTHER
value: thereafter
type: TEMPORAL
value: generally
type: DEGREE
value: permanently
type: MANNER
value: for living organisms
type: OTHER
value: exclusively
type: DEGREE
value: simply
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value: between that of 1793
type: TEMPORAL
value: between the patent act of 1790
type: TEMPORAL
value: during the three years
type: TEMPORAL
value: heretofore
type: DEGREE
value: relatively fast
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Source sentences:
text: The inventors, their successors or their assignees become the proprietors of the patent when and if it is granted.
text: If a patent is granted to more than one proprietor, the laws of the country in question and any agreement between the proprietors may affect the extent to which each proprietor can exploit the patent.
text: According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a patent can be granted to any person who:
text: A patent prevents others from using, making or selling a specific invention within the U.S. Use of the term "patent pending" or "patent applied for" is intended to inform the general public that the inventor has filed a patent application on the item, but these terms do not protect the inventor until a patent is actually granted.
text: If a patent is granted, the manufacturer or seller of the patented article must mark the articles with the patent number.
text: If a patent is granted, the inventor must pay another fee, and the government publishes a description of the invention and its use.
text: The examiners review applications for patents and determine whether patents can be granted.
text: If the examiner’s decision on patentability is favorable, a patent is granted.
text: By virtue of this authority congress can grant patents to inventors, and it rests in the sound, discretion of the legislature to say when, and for what length of time, and under what circumstances the patent for an invention shall be granted.
text: By the 10th section of the same act it is provided, That where any person hath made, or shall have made, any new invention, discovery or improvement, on account of which a patent might by virtue of this act be granted, and, such person shall die before any patent shall be granted therefor, the right of applying for and obtaining such patent shall devolve on the executor or administrator of such person, in trust for the heirs at, law of the deceased, in case he shall have died intestate; but if otherwise, then in trust for his devisees, in as full and ample manner, and under the same conditions, limitations, and restrictions, as the same was held, or might have been claimed or enjoyed by such in his or her lifetime; and when application for a patent shall be made by such legal representatives, the oath or affirmation provided in the sixth section of this act, shall be so varied as to be applicable to them.
text: Patents are granted, 1.
text: Provided, however, That no opinion or decision of any board of examiners, under the provisions of this act, shall preclude any person interested in favor of or against the validity of any patent which has been or may hereafter be granted, from the right to contest the same in any judicial court in any action in which its, validity may come in question.
text: And it shall be the duty of said judge after a hearing of any such case, to return all the papers to the commissioner, with a certificate of his proceedings and decision, which shall be entered of record in the patent office; land such decision, so certified, shall govern the further proceedings of the commissioner in such case, Provided, however, That no opinion or decision of the judge in any such case, shall preclude any person interested in favor or against the validity of any patent, which has been or way hereafter be granted, from the right to contest the same in any judicial court, in any action in which its validity may come in question.
text: 4, 1836, that whenever any patent which has heretofore been granted, or which shall hereafter be granted, shall be inoperative or invalid, by reason of a defective or insufficient description or specification, or by reason of the patentee claiming in his specification as his own invention, more than he had or shall have a right to claim as new; if the error has, or shall have arisen b y inadvertency, accident or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, it shall be lawful for the commissioner, upon the surrender to him of such patent, and the payment of the further duty of fifteen dollars, to cause a new patent to be issued to the said inventor, for the same invention, for the residue of the period then unexpired for which the original patent was granted, in accordance with the patentee's corrected description and specification.
text: 4, 1836, that whenever any patent which has heretofore been granted, or which shall hereafter be granted, shall be inoperative or invalid, by reason of a defective or insufficient description or specification, or by reason of the patentee claiming in his specification as his own invention, more than he had or shall have a right to claim as new; if the error has, or shall have arisen b y inadvertency, accident or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, it shall be lawful for the commissioner, upon the surrender to him of such patent, and the payment of the further duty of fifteen dollars, to cause a new patent to be issued to the said inventor, for the same invention, for the residue of the period then unexpired for which the original patent was granted, in accordance with the patentee's corrected description and specification.
text: The act of July 4, 1836, section 14, provides, That whenever in any action for damages for making, using, or selling the thing whereof the exclusive right is secured by any patent heretofore granted, or by any patent which may hereafter be granted, a verdict shall be rendered for the plaintiff in such action, it shall be in the power of the court to render judgment for any sum above the amount found by such verdict as the actual damages sustained by the plaintiff, not exceeding three times the amount thereof, according to the circumstances of the case, with costs; and such damages may be recovered by action on the case, in any court of competent jurisdiction, to be brought in the name or names of the person or persons interested, whether as patentee, assignees, or as grantees of the exclusive right within and throughout a specified part of the United States.
text: That the defendant in any such action shall be permitted to plead the general issue, and to give this act, and any special matter in evidence, of which notice in writing may have been given to the plaintiff or his attorney, thirty days before trial, tending to prove that the description and specification filed by plaintiff does not contain the whole truth relative to his invention or discovery, or that it contains more than is necessary to produce the described effect; which concealment or addition shall fully appear to have, been made for the purpose of deceiving the public, or that the patentee was not, the original and first inventor or discoverer of the thing patented, or of a substantial and material art thereof claimed as new, or that it had teen described in some public work anterior to the supposed discovery thereof by the patentee, or had been in public use, or on sale with the consent and allowance of the patentee before his application for a patent, or that, he had surreptitiously or unjustly obtained the patent for that which was in fact invented or discovered by another, who was using reasonable diligence in adapting and perfecting the same; or, that the patentee if an alien at the time the patent was granted, had failed and neglected for the space of eighteen months from the date of the patent, to put and continue on sale to the public, on reasonable terms, the invention or discovery for which the patent issued; in either of which cases judgment shall be rendered for the defendant, with costs.
text: Patents are granted and issued through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
text: Once a patent is granted, it is regarded as the Personal Property of the inventor.
text: The Patent and Trademark Office keeps patent applications confidential until the patent is granted.
text: No patent will be granted if the description purposely omits the complete truth about the invention in order to deceive the public.
text: The warning indicates that the applicant(s) may be entitled to some rights even if a patent has not been granted yet, or that the applicant(s) will be entitled to some rights once a patent is granted.
text: A set of substantive requirements for a patent to be granted.
text: The rights conferred to a published patent application, i.e. the rights conferred before the patent is granted.
text: However, the patent pending holder cannot sue a potential infringer until a patent is actually granted.
text: If/when a patent is actually granted, a holder may be able to collect damages, such as back-dated royalties, or may be able to get an injunction or effect a seizure of the items that are similar to the content or artwork listed on their patent application.
text: Once a patent has been granted or denied, the inventor can no longer use the words “patent pending.
text: An invention can still be considered in "patent pending" status even after the patent has been granted or abandoned.
text: A patent example is a sample of a patent that has already been granted to someone.
text: Once a patent has been granted to an inventor, he or she has the legal authority to prohibit others from making or selling the invention in the country where the patent was granted.
text: Once a patent has been granted to an inventor, he or she has the legal authority to prohibit others from making or selling the invention in the country where the patent was granted.
text: This patent lasts 14 years from the date the patent is granted.
text: It ceases to exist as soon as the application is withdrawn or refused, or a patent is granted.
text: That specification is filed at a patent office for examination and ultimately a patent for the invention described in the application is either granted or refused.
text: In the U.S., claims can be amended after a patent is granted, but their scope cannot be broadened beyond what was originally disclosed in the specification.
text: The term may be used to mark products containing the invention to alert a third party to the fact that the third party may be infringing a patent if the product is copied after the patent is granted.
text: Patents are granted to the first applicant
text: Between the Patent Act of 1790 and that of 1793, only 57 patents were granted, but by July 2, 1836, a total of 10,000 patents had been granted.
text: Patents were granted to objects and procedures which were not original inventions or not useful.
text: Patents are granted to inventors of unique useful and nonobvious inventions.
text: Another advantage is that a patent is granted relatively fast.
text: In general, a patent can be granted if an invention is:
text: The ISSUE DATE entry reflects the date the application will issue as a patent, that is the date the patent is granted and the patent grant is mailed to the applicant.
text: A PCT application, as such, is not an actual request that a patent be granted, and it is not converted into one unless and until it enters the "national phase".
text: When a patent is granted, the invention becomes the property of the inventor.
text: Patents could be repealed by a district court within one year after it was granted if found to be infringing.
text: Fifty-seven patents were granted during the three years the 1790 Patent Act existed.
text: Alternatively, if the application was filed only in the United States, the applicant can request non-publication — in which case the application will not be published unless and until a patent is granted.
text: The process is quite vast and costly, and once your patent is granted, the next step is to commercialize it to reap the benefit from your patents.
text: It is exclusively granted to her/him and
text: If someone else tries to create and distribute a similar or identical product, you can take legal action once the patent has been granted.
text: A patent is a legal document that is granted to the first to file on a particular invention (product or process), which allows them to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention that is described for a period of twenty years from the date that they first filed the application.
text: Provisional Rights: Once the patent is granted, you may be liable to receive a royalty for infringing activity that occurs from the date of the patent application publication to the issue date of the patent.
text: Once the patent is granted, you may be liable to receive a royalty for infringing activity that occurs from the date of the patent application publication to the issue date of the patent.
text: Invention Confidentiality: By withholding the publication of patent application, the invention will remain confidential at least until a patent may be granted.
text: By withholding the publication of patent application, the invention will remain confidential at least until a patent may be granted.
text: Patent Document Confidentiality: All documents related to communication between you and the U.S. Patent Office will remain confidential at least until a patent may be granted.
text: All documents related to communication between you and the U.S. Patent Office will remain confidential at least until a patent may be granted.
text: Public disclosure before a patent is granted.
text: Protection against infringement, however, signifies the formal legal methods needed to protect yourself from someone who infringes on your monopoly once your patent has been granted.
text: If your invention can fit through each door, the patent will be granted.
text: When the patent is granted, it is published as a B document.
text: A design patent remains valid as long as 14 to 15 years from the date the patent is granted.
text: An exception to this exists in the first nine months after the patent has been granted; in this case, anybody can start a procedure at the European Patent Office to annul the patent in all countries it exists in at the same time.
text: Hopkins was born in Vermont, but was living in Philadelphia, Pa. when the patent was granted.
text: Patents were granted simply by submitting a written description of an invention, a model of the invention, if appropriate, and paying a fee of $30 then, and now $1000 in 2006 US dollars.
text: In the US, Ben Klemens, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, proposed that patents should be granted only to inventions that include a physical component that is by itself nonobvious.
text: A patent on an invention that many people would easily develop independently of one another should not, it is argued, be granted since this impedes development.
text: However, it is impossible to guarantee the novelty of an invention, even once a patent has been granted, since some obscure little known publication may have disclosed the claimed invention.[citation needed]
text: Patents have been granted for living organisms, and in the United States, certain living organisms have been patentable for over a century.
text: During examination of a pending patent application or after the patent is granted, the owner of the patent may change: 1) the original owner may transfer ownership to another entity or party, through an "assignment;" or 2) the original owner may retain ownership but change its name.
text: When the patent office reviews a patent application, a patent examiner is appointed to ensure that the application meets the legal requirements for patentability before any patent is granted.
text: A patent is an intellectual 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.
text: Most such patents were permanently granted.
text: The issue fee comes next and you pay this only if your patent is granted.
text: You need to pay them 3 1/2, 7 1/2, and 11 1/2 years after your patent is granted.
text: If your invention is aimed at a highly competitive market in which products are rapidly replaced or improved, your patent may be worth little by the time it is granted.
text: After your patent is granted, you may claim damages for infringements originating as far back as the publication date of your application.
text: However, a patent will be granted if the only previous version was a spontaneous, one-time aberration incapable of reproducing.
text: Patents are generally granted to ideas that are useful, novel, or non-obvious in a few different situations.
text: A patent on an invention may be granted that infringes on another patent.
text: Whether a patent will be granted is determined, in large measure, by the choice of wording of the claims.
text: However, if you successfully file for a patent and one is awarded (the average timeline for a patent to be awarded is around six to seven years), your exclusive rights to sell and/or license the ability to reproduce the patent for 20 years from the date you applied (utility and plant patents – design patents are 14 years from the date a patent is granted).
text: A patent must be granted in order to enjoy the time-limited right to exclude others from making, using or selling an invention.
text: A patent can be granted to:
text: In United States patent law, a statutory disclaimer is a statement in writing, recorded in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, disclaiming a complete claim of a patent or disclaiming a term, or terminal part of a term, of a patent granted or to be granted.
text: As stated by the USPTO: "In 1861, the fee for obtaining a full patent was $35, of which $15 was to be paid at the time of application and $20 when the patent was granted.
text: Once the patent is granted the patentee does not need to pay a renewal or maintenance fee for the first two years.
text: One of the consequences of the explosion in the number of patent applications is that the patents that are granted are legally weaker, because each application is getting less scrutiny.
text: The application is examined before the patent is granted.
text: A patent is a right that is granted to an individual of enterprises under the government used to exclude other individuals or companies to copy makes or sells the patent products without the approval of the owner of the patent.
text: However, the applicant cannot institute the infringement proceedings unless the patent is granted.
text: Thereafter, after the Controller has considered the submission and the representations made, the the patent is either granted or rejected.
text: Whether a patent will be granted is determined, in large measure, by the scope of the claims.
text: A patent is granted only for the physical embodiment of an idea (for example, the description of a possible door lock) or for a process that produces something tangible or that can be sold.
text: If so, filing provides some protection for your invention, possibly making your competitors less likely to infringe on it (that is, make, use or sell it) for fear of having to pay retroactive compensation should your patent eventually be granted.
text: When you have a Canadian patent, you will be able to sue infringers for all damages that occurred after your patent was granted.
text: Also after the grant, you may sue for "reasonable compensation" for infringements that occurred in Canada between the date your application was made available for public inspection in English or French (normally this is 18 months after the filing or priority date) and the date your patent was granted.
text: These phrases have no legal effect but may warn others that you will be able to enforce your exclusive right to make the invention once a patent is granted.