Patents
What is a patent
Patent is the grant of a property right to the inventor that gives him a temporary monopoly on the manufacturing and sale of the object of the invention.
In this way inventors are granted the right to exclude others from making, using, selling exporting and importing the objects that fall within the patent protection.
In this way inventors are granted the right to exclude others from making, using, selling exporting and importing the objects that fall within the patent protection.
The Italian law provides for two different patent types according to the technical-function character of the invention:
- patents for industrial invention used to protect devices, tools, manufactures and methods that represent a new original solution of a technical problem, capable of industrial application
- patents for utility model used to protect inventions that give special efficiency or easiness of use and application to machines or parts of machines, instruments, tools and other objects in general
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