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Patents and Trademarks
What a patent protects and how it differs from a copyright, the software patent question, the three kinds of infringement, and trademarks.
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- Invention defined — any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or improvement
- A patent grants a property right to inventors and excludes others from making, using or selling
- Unlike copyright, a patent prevents independent creation as well as copying
- Software patents, their cost and enforcement, and USPTO practice
- Direct, indirect and induced patent infringement
- Trademarks — registered signs that let consumers tell one company's products from another's
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