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A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government in exchange for disclosing to the public an invention or process which is sufficiently new or innovative. These rights (specifically to prevent others from making, using, selling, or offering for sale) provide the exclusive ability to manufacture or otherwise use the invention for a set period of time. During this time of exclusivity patents may be sold, assigned, licensed, and/or used as marketing tools to promote innovation and public exchange of ideas.

A patent is the broadest form of intellectual property protection. As such, patents encompass not only the invention or process of using the invention, but also many variations of the underlying concept of the invention.

The laws and regulations of the United States Patent and Trademark Office are complex and subsequent invention evaluation, reviewing patentability issues, and procuring patents can be a daunting task. We at IPRC can assist clients in evaluation, design, preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent and design applications.

“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.”

                                    --Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, Monticello,

                                                                                            August 13, 1813