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Patents can be viewed as a contract between the government and an inventor, which grants a person or company exclusive rights to an idea or invention. With patents, the inventor receives legal protection for an invention from others coping the idea; the government benifits from patents by getting full knowledge of what the invention is and how it works. One can search patents online. US Patents through COS is a fully searchable bibliographic patent database containing all of the over 1.7 million US patents issued since mid-1970s. You can patent anything as long as it is original. Many people in the past who failed to patent an idea sometimes let would have been huge profits slip out their grip. |
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