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There Are Three Types of Patents<\/h3>\n

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Utility Patent<\/h4>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”6″][vc_column_text]A utility patent protects the useful parts of an invention.<\/p>\n

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Utility patents can be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement. If it’s useful, it’s a utility patent.<\/p>\n

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When people say they want to get a patent, they are generally talking about a utility patent.<\/p>\n

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Utility Patent = Patent (generally)[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”34″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Design\u00a0Patent<\/h4>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”6″][vc_column_text]A design patent protects the aesthetic parts of an invention.<\/p>\n

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Design patents can be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. If it’s ornamental, it\u2019s a design patent.<\/p>\n

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To put it simply, design patents cannot have utility. Or, even more simply, design patents must literally be useless.<\/p>\n

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Design Patent = Use-less (*literally, but still valuable)<\/p>\n

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If an invention has both useful and ornamental features, then the useful features can be protected by a utility patent and the ornamental features can be protected by a design patent.<\/p>\n

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So, how a phone works can be protected by utility patents and how the phone looks can be protected by design patents.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”34″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Plant\u00a0Patent<\/h4>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”6″][vc_column_text]A plant patent protects a plant.<\/p>\n

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Plant patents can be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.<\/p>\n

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There is a simple test you can use for plant patents. Take a look at your idea. Is it a plant?<\/p>\n

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Elements You’ll See in Patent Documents<\/h3>\n

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[vc_row row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” padding_top=”57″ padding_bottom=”2″ css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text] There Are Three Types of Patents [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”small” position=”center” circle_position=”circle_center”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text] Utility Patent [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”6″][vc_column_text]A utility patent protects the useful parts of an invention.     Utility patents can be granted to anyone…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keytoip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keytoip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keytoip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keytoip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keytoip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/keytoip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/keytoip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keytoip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}