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What is the most important patent?
1. The Lightbulb. The electric lightbulb is perhaps one of the most famous patented inventions known to humankind. It was awarded to Thomas Alva Edison in the year 1878.
What are patents best used for?
Protecting your business’s intellectual property is just as important as protecting your business’s physical property. Patents can be used to protect your intellectual and creative work product, which usually comes in the form of an invention or new process.
What invention has the most patents?
Worldwide utility patents
| Inventor | Patents | Inventors / Patent |
|---|---|---|
| Eric C. Leuthardt | 664 | 9.1 |
| Gregory J. Boss | 658 | 4.2 |
| Irwin Gerszberg | 658 | 6.8 |
| William I. Wood | 653 | 5.2 |
What is patent give example?
The definition of a patent is the right from the federal government to produce and sell something for a certain number of years without anyone copying it. An example of patent is a protection against copying the production method used to create M&Ms.
What is patent and its importance?
A patent provides a right to an inventor(s) to exclude others from exploiting the patented invention. Therefore, other than the inventor cannot use, make or sell the patented invention without permission from the inventor. This is often referred to as the exclusive right of the invention.
What is patent in your own words?
A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention. In other words, patent protection means that the invention cannot be commercially made, used, distributed, imported, or sold by others without the patent owner’s consent.
How valuable is a patent?
If an inventor has an item that they have patented, the patent’s value would be the amount of money required to replace that invention. A prospective client would not be willing to pay more for a patent than the amount they would have to pay to obtain an equivalent protection right.