Explore: Patent Law

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

Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2)

computer programs are explicitly mentioned in statutory United States patent law. Patent law has changed to address new technologies, and decisions of the United

A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling

procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently

Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) is a proposed international patent law treaty aimed at harmonizing substantive points of patent law. In contrast

The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the participating

The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is a treaty adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization signed on 1 June 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland, by 53 States

European patent law covers a range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of

of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention, also called Strasbourg Convention or Strasbourg Patent Convention, is a multilateral treaty