Guide To Patenting And USPTO Patent ApplicationsWhat Are Patent Rights and What Does Patent Ownership Mean?
When an inventor is granted a patent the following will arrive in mail; your US patent will be issued in the name of the United States under the seal of the Patent and Trademark Office, and will be signed by either the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks or bear his/her name and have the signature of an US Patent Office official. The patent contains a grant to the patentee. A printed copy of the specification and drawing is annexed to the patent and forms a part of it. What Rights Does A Patent Grant The grant confers “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” and its territories and possessions for which the term of the patent shall be 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was f
