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Chapter 1 · Intellectual Property

Patent Basics

The foundations of patent protection and the history behind it, what inventions are patent-eligible, the criteria for patenting — novelty, non-obviousness, utility — the other types of patent, and how the patenting process works.

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Introduction to Intellectual Property: Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/introduction-intellectual-property/pages/1-introduction