Patent - ANSWERSExclude others from making, using or selling an invention for a limited period of time
• What's protected: inventions, e.g., a new and useful process, machine, manufacture, composition of
matter, or any useful improvement thereof (almost "anything under the sun that is made by man")
• What's not protected: inventions deemed patent ineligible, e.g., nature/natural laws, algorithms,
sensitive materials relevant to national security
• Benefit: exclude others from making, using or selling an invention for a limited period of time
• How to obtain: file application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; obtain allowance and
issuance
• Requirements: useful, novel, non-obvious, no previous public disclosure
• Duration: 20 years from the date of filing the regular (utility) patent application
• What's protected: an original work of authorship
• What's not protected: facts, ideas, systems or methods of operation
• Benefit: block unauthorized copying or public performance of an original work
• How to obtain: automatic once fixed in tangible medium; may additionally register with U.S. Copyright
Office
• Requirements: does not need to be published, registered or contain any copyright statement or symbol
to be protected
• Duration: life of the author plus 70 years (or for some works, 95 years from first publication)
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