Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Patent Infringement
Document Summary
Patents provide exclusive rights to practice an invention. To practice is to male, use or sell. Inventions are: products, compositions, process, improvements on any of these. To be patented an invention must be: new. Disclosure requirement can"t have disclosed your product to the public more then one year before your patent. Sometimes interferes with scientific research: useful, not obvious. Patents last for 20 years from the date of first application. Patented inventions may be: licensed, sold, used as collateral. Remedies for patent infringement: damages, injunctions, accounting for profits, delivering up. Industrial designs protect the visual appearance of a product. The design, shape or pattern of a product. Industrial designs protect against manufacture, sale, rent, or importation. Industrial designs: must be registered for protection, must be registered within 1 year of initial use, last for 10 years. Industrial designs no not extend to functional components or composition only design for appearance.
