October 17, 2018
A Brief History of Patents
Patents provide important protection to a successful idea, but few people know how complicated the process of obtaining one can be. The US patent system has a long and complicated history. Or at least it was a complicated, until now, thanks to our crash course in the history of patents in the United States. Before …
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The History of the Roller Coaster
August 2, 2013
The History of Patents
When you talk about inventions, you’ll often talk about patents, too. But, what exactly is a patent? It is a property right for an invention that is given by the government to an inventor. A U.S. patent gives an inventor the right to “exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling their invention …
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