Joseph Simon-Brown

Oct 11, 2023 | mondaq.com | Lucy M. Barnes |Joseph Simon-Brown |James Cracknell |Vicki Allen

A patent is a legal monopoly granted by a government in return for public disclosure of an invention. A granted patent gives the proprietor the right to prevent others using the invention in the territory to which the patent applies. A patent does not, however, give a positive right to use an invention. There may be earlier patents for other inventions that an inventor may need to license to exploit his own invention.