Assertion: patent's right | /r/CapableOf | exclude other
Facets:
value: in exchange
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The U.S. patent system is designed to encourage inventions that are useful to society by granting inventors the absolute right to exclude all others from using or profiting from their invention for a limited time, in exchange for disclosing the details of the invention to the public.
text: A patent gives an inventor the right to exclude all others from making, using, importing, selling, or offering to sell the invention for up to 20 years without the inventor's permission—however, a patent is not required to sell a product or process, it simply protects these inventions from being stolen.