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patent

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A patent is a legal protection granted by the government that gives an inventor exclusive rights to make, use, or sell their invention for a limited period of time. This protection matters because it encourages people to develop new inventions by ensuring they can benefit from their work without others copying it during that time.

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Patent Perspective on Orodispersible Films.ReviewRecent patents on drug delivery & formulation · 2020Gupta S, Kumar TP, Gowda DVDOI: 10.2174/1872211314666200904104022
The rebirth of epitope-based patent claims.ReviewHuman antibodies · 2024Storz UDOI: 10.3233/HAB-240006
A Patent Review on Nanotechnology-Based Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery.ReviewRecent patents on nanotechnology · 2020Singh R, Brumlik C, Vaidya M et al.DOI: 10.2174/1872210514666200508121050
Patent portfolio management: literature review and a proposed model.Expert opinion on therapeutic patents · 2018Conegundes De Jesus CK, Salerno MSDOI: 10.1080/13543776.2018.1472238
Mesenchymal stem cell-derived cell-free technologies: a patent landscape.ReviewBiotechnology letters · 2024Opretzka LCF, Pinto CD, Santos JRJ et al.DOI: 10.1007/s10529-024-03506-y
Global patent landscape of programmed cell death 1: implications of the rapid expansion.ReviewExpert opinion on therapeutic patents · 2018Kong X, Zhang Q, Lai Y et al.DOI: 10.1080/13543776.2017.1378349
A 20-year patent review and innovation trends on hydrogel-based coatings used for medical device biofabrication.ReviewJournal of biomaterials science. Polymer edition · 2023Hachimi Alaoui C, Fatimi ADOI: 10.1080/09205063.2022.2161777
Patent protection for microbial technologies.ReviewFEMS microbiology letters · 2017Sherkow JSDOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx205

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Commons category: Patents
exact match: purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_15cd
Stack Exchange site URL: patents.stackexchange.com
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10003466
P13411: Karlsruhe

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Contents

Definition
History
Gender gap in patents
Innovation decline
Law
Effects
Challenges
Infringement
Enforcement
Ownership
Governing laws
Anti-biopiracy dispositions
Application and prosecution
Costs
Non-national treatment in the application procedure
Alternatives
Benefits
Criticism
Anti-patent initiatives
See also
References
Further reading
External links

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A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent in order to enforce their rights.