 | Jan de Sutter - Business & Economics - 2004 - 508 pages
...for software. The definition of a patent by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is: "A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. " Since the essence... | |
 | Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBA - Business & Economics - 2005 - 500 pages
...answer these and related questions, we need to understand what lies at the heart of patent protection. A patent is 'an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem'."1 It ordinarily entitles... | |
 | Ursula Smartt - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 344 pages
...expressions, not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such, whereas a patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. Copyright is a property... | |
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Industrial property. This includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source. A. patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides either a new way of... 