Assertion: patent | /r/CapableOf | provide protection
Facets:
value: for inventions
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for the owner
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for 20 years
type: TEMPORAL
value: for creators
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for new discoveries
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Patents provide protection for new discoveries and inventions that are useful, novel, or non-obvious.
text: A patent provides protection for companies and creators of inventive new products that are at risk of being copied or stolen by potential competitors.
text: It provides protection for the invention, preventing others from manufacturing, using and trading it.
text: Patents provide protection for 20 years.
text: The patent provides protection for the owner, which gives him/her the right to exclude others from making, using, exercising, disposing of the invention, offering to dispose, or importing the invention.
text: While patents provide incentives and protections to inventors, a novel idea eventually becomes established.