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A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful.
The exclusive right granted a patentee is the right to prevent others from making, using, or selling the claimed invention, not the right to make, use, or sell the invention themselves. The patentee may have to comply with other laws and regulations to make use of the claimed invention. So, for example, a pharmaceutical company may obtain a patent on a new drug but will be unable to market the drug without regulatory approval.
The term "patent" originates from the Latin word patere which means "to lay open" (ie. make available for public inspection) and the term letters patent, which originally denoted royal decrees granting exclusive rights to certain individuals or businesses.
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Federal Circuit Hears Case That Could Stem Software Patents (SYS-CON Media) The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit en banc heard oral arguments Thursday in the Bilski case, which, if their honors get to feeling radical and rule broadly, could outlaw not only business methods patents in the United States but - by extension - void all existing software patents and patent applications. It could take the court maybe nine months and into a new administration to ... | Patent watch (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) NVE Corp., which released its fourth-quarter and year-end results last week, said that in the last fiscal year it added four new patents to its portfolio. | Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Feb 2007 22:39 UTC (OS News) When it comes to open sourcing Solaris and Java, patents and politics are leading Sun toward a change of heart. The question is which open source licence should govern the building of projects out of the company's technology crown jewels. | Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th May 2007 12:39 UTC, submitted by anonymous (New Mobile Computing) "This week, Microsoft laid out the next chapter in their plans regarding patents and open source Linux software, by going public with the claim that Linux infringes on some 235 of their software patents. | Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Oct 2007 15:12 UTC (New Mobile Computing) This week's 'big' news on OSNews was about software patents. You know, those things that say you cannot stack four pixels on top of one another unless you pay money to the guy who invented four-pixel-stacks (or the guy who bought the guy who invented four-pixel-stacks). |

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