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Patents.
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Patent infringement -- United States.
Patent infringement -- United States -- Cases.
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Incentives for Global Public Health : Patent Law and Access to Essential Medicines by 
Patent Claim Interpretation by 
Patents Throughout the World by 
patent (pat-<<schwa>>nt), n. (14c) 1. The governmental grant of a right, privilege, or authority. 2. The official document so granting. — Also termed public grant. See letters patent.
call patent. A land patent in which the corners have been staked but the boundary lines have not been run out at the time of the grant.
escheat patent. See escheat grant under grant.
land patent. An instrument by which the government conveys a grant of public land to a private person.
lapse patent. A land patent substituting for an earlier patent to the same land that lapsed because the previous patentee did not claim it.
3. The right to exclude others from making, using, marketing, selling, offering for sale, or importing an invention for a specified period (20 years from the date of filing), granted by the federal government to the inventor if the device or process is novel, useful, and nonobvious. 35 USCA §§ 101–103. • The holding of a patent alone does not by itself grant any right to make, use, or sell anything if that activity would infringe another's blocking patent. — Also termed patent right; patent grant.
PATENT, Black's Law Dictionary (9th ed. 2009), patent
The federal laws governing patents are found in the United States Code Title 35:
The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) contains the procedures that govern patent law:
Moy's Walker on Patents by Patent Damages Law and Practice by 
Patent Law in Nutshell by 
Principles of Patent Law by 
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