Utility patents
Over the last five years, practitioners at Williams Intellectual Property have written more than 500 utility patent applications for clients across the world.
Over the last five years, practitioners at Williams Intellectual Property have written more than 500 utility patent applications for clients across the world.
Utility patents offer the broadest protection for any new or useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. Utility patents are filed under 35 USC 111(a) and offer inventors protection against infringement for a term of 20 years, calculated from the filing date. Most inventors seek to obtain utility protection for their device. In order to qualify for utility protection, a device must be “enabled”, that is, a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the patent pertains must be able to practice the invention after reading the patent.
Plant patents are granted to an inventor who has invented or discovered, and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant.
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Learn moreUtility patents offer the broadest protection for any new or useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter.
Learn moreDesign patents protect the way something looks, not the structural components informing the device.
Learn moreA provisional patent is a temporary filing, filed under 35 USC 111(b), used to secure the benefit of a filing date.
Learn morePlant patents are granted to an inventor who has invented or discovered, and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant.
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