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Question:The functions of the United States patent and trademark office.
Answer: The role of the USPTO is to grant patents for the protection of inventions and to register trademarks.
Question:Use of inventions more than one year prior to filling a patent will prohibit the granting of a patent
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Inventors are also reminded that any public use or sale in the United States or publication of the invention anywhere in the world more than one year prior to the filing of a patent application on that invention will prohibit the granting of an U. S. patent on it.
Question:A patent license makes sure the licensor does not sue the licensee.
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A patent license agreement is in essence nothing more than a promise by the licensor not to sue the licensee.
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There is a time limit on patent protection.
For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins with the date of the grant and usually ends 20 years from the date you first applied for the patent subject to the payment of appropriate maintenance fees. Design patents last 14 years from the date you are granted the patent. Note: Patents in force on June 8 and patents issued thereafter on applications filed prior to June 8, 1995 automatically have a term that is the greater of the twenty year term discussed above or seventeen years from the patent grant.
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