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Patent "A patent is a contract between the state and the applicant by which a temporary monopoly is granted in return for disclosing all details of the invention. This is simplification: what happens is not the applicant is given a monopoly but rather that no one can exploit that invention"1. The Longman dictionary defines patent as "an official document conferring a right of privilege, a formal document securing to an inventor for a specified period the exclusive right to make, use or sell his/her invention"2. Use of Patent Patent are a great way of finding about information on product. Below are lists of things that parents are used for: - Patents are used often to search information for technical details. They might be the only place where someone can find information. According to the European patent Office, $20 000 million are wasted each year on re-inventing re-developing ideas because of lack of information. Also...

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