LAW 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Patent Office, Prosecution History Estoppel, Patent Attorney
12 Apr 2018
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Introduction: patent law provides the strongest monopoly rights of the intellectual property system. In exchange for the substantial rights provided under the patent act, the inventor must share with the public a full disclosure of the details of the invention. Thus, after the patent rights have expired, the public is free to use the invention. It is important to note that the inventor or owner has no rights until and unless a patent is granted from the applicable patent office. The inventor owner has no rights in a country unless a patent has been applied for an this issue from the applicable patent office in that country: the patent system is a race. Send a patent is a monopoly affected even against those who might independently invest the same thing, the first to file a patent application for the invention will win. Inventions are built on the work of others.
