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Utility Patent

In US usage means patents on useful things, methods or processes, i.e., typical patents as opposed to Design Patents.  Different from a Utility Model which is a type of Petty Patent.

Related Terms

  • 100 EPC, Article
  • 102, Section
  • 103, Section
  • 112 Equivalence
  • 271(f), Section

Term posted by Origin on 14 June 2013 in Intellectual Property, Patents

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