I am sorry that my question is a little strange. But, I do not understand what is "patent". Indeed, is there any difference between "patent" and "paper"?
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well, yes but it requires a governmental agency to grant a right (a patent). It's all in the definition. Do people not use the dictionary any more?Briefly Yes. The patent is a type of paper in which you built a new circuit and have novelty.
Excatly !A patent is a paper, but a paper is not a patent
Yes but you clearly hadn't read the definition.Many pieces of information told here does not exist in any dictionary, Mr Philba!
Yeah, the process is weighted towards deep pockets. Typical cost of a patent today is north of $30K. I have 10 or so and they are all assigned to some company or other. I've lost track of who owns "my" patents. Heck, I have a patent on using -1 (initial value of a flash memory cell). So much for non-obviousness. It didn't used to be that way. Patents used to protect the little guy but today it's all about amassing "IP" and using it to threaten other companies into either paying up or cross licensing. The system is rigged for the big companies, it's pathetic. Look at Intellectual Ventures. The guy who owns it got rich by cross licensing patents and then using litigation threats to cross license other IP and build up a bigger portfolio so he can repeat the process. He didn't invent anything and claims he's just out to "protect the little guy". I doubt there is a patent in his portfolio that is actually owned by a little guy.A patent is a grant by a government of exclusive ownership of a new invention. The process is nearly impossible for an individual to initiate. Lawyers are usually used to write patents, which are written in a language unlike anything you have ever seen. They are nearly all rejected the first time, then the lawyer has to prove that their objections are unfounded.
A patentable idea must be new and non-obvious. The patent application must provide enough information for a person skilled in the art related to the patent (eg and electrical engineer for circuits) to build a working version of the invention.
I have 3 of them, all filed by my employer.
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