Patents | Protect Your Ideas

Article I, § 8 of the Constitution empowers Congress to enact laws to protect inventors' discoveries to promote the progress of science. These patent laws grant the inventors the right to prohibit others from producing or using the intellectual property covered by the patent for a limited period of time. The term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. US patents grant rights effective in the US, US territories, and possessions.

The government intends for the patent system to promote technological innovation by providing economic incentives for research and development by preventing intellectual theft by others. To be granted legal protection, the patent-holder must disclose enough information about the patent to allow others to use the patented invention after the patent expires.

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