Patents and Copyrights Flashcards
1
Q
What are patents?
A
A patent for an invention is granted by a government to the inventor, giving the inventor the right to stop others, for a limited period, from making, using or selling the invention without their permission
2
Q
what things can you patent?
A
New things - it must not have been made publicly available anywhere in the world.
inventive - Cannot be an obvious change to something that already exists
Either something that can be made or used, a technical process, or a method of doing something
