Patents

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This paper briefly talks about the origins of the U.S. patent system and then describes the underlying basis for patenting laws, explains how patents differ from copyrights and trademarks, looks at current considerations in patenting law, and describes some of the global issues regarding patents, as well as issues between the United States and Japan concerning patents.

Theoretical Basis for Patent and Copyright Grants
Differences between Patent and Copyright
Current Considerations
Total Patents Issued
Problems with Patents
Global Patent Environment
US-Japan Patent Issues

From the Paper:

"The United States Patent system is almost as old as the nation: President George Washington signed the bill leading to its creation on April 10, 1790. It was the first time in history that the right of an inventor to profit from his 'intellectual property' had been recognized by law. Until that time, in Europe at least and in the colonies, inventors merely had privileges regarding their inventions, privileges that could be withdrawn at the monarch's whim. Occasionally, special acts of a legislature would grant some rights, also, but the process could hardly be called as system, and was capricious and applied unequally at best."

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