Assertion: patent | /r/HasProperty | utility
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text: There are three different types of patents: utility, design, and plant.
text: Most patents are utility patents, which protect “new, nonobvious and useful” articles of manufacture (or manufactures), compositions of matter, processes, machines, and improvements on any of those things.
text: A patent for this type of situation is called a utility patent, and it is the most common type of patent sought in the United States.
text: A business method patent is part of a larger family of patents known as utility patents, which protect inventions, formulas and processes.
text: There are three types of patents -- utility, design, and plant.
text: There are three types of patents: utility (which covers function), design (which covers aesthetics) and plant (which covers, well, plants--of the botanical variety).
text: There are three types of patents: utility, design, and plant.