Patent Act
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A Patent Act is a country's legislation that controls the use of patent
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Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
s. There have been numerous Patent Acts:
Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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- Canadian Patent ActPatent Act (Canada)The Canadian Patent Act is Canadian federal legislation and is one of the main pieces of Canadian legislation governing patent law in Canada. It sets out the criteria for patentability, what can and cannot be patented in Canada, the process for obtaining a Canadian patent, and provides for the...
Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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- German Patents Act ("Patentgesetz")
India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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- Patents Act 1953
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
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- Patents Act 1977 (see Patents Act 1977 (as amended up to and including 1 January 2010))
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 , also known as the CDPA, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 15 November 1988. It reformulates almost completely the statutory basis of copyright law in the United Kingdom, which had, until then, been...
United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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- Patent Act of 1790Patent Act of 1790The Patent Act of 1790 was the first patent statute passed by the federal government of the United States. It was enacted on April 10, 1790, about one year after the constitution was ratified and a new government was organized. The law was concise, defining the subject matter of a U.S...
- Patent Act of 1793
- Patent Act of 1836Patent Act of 1836The Patent Act of 1836 established a number of important changes in the United States patent system. These include:*The examination of patent applications prior to issuing a patent. This was the second time this was done anywhere in the world. The only other time an examination period existed...
- Patent Act of 1922Patent Act of 1922The Patent Act of 1922 began circulating general information about how to acquire a patent to the general public as a means of spurring private invention initiatives....
- Patent Act of 1952Patent Act of 1952The U.S. Patent Act of 1952 clarified and simplified existing U.S. patent law. It also effected substantive changes, including the incorporation of the requirement for invention and the judicial doctrine of contributory infringement The U.S. Patent Act of 1952 clarified and simplified existing...
- Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act of 1980Bayh-Dole ActThe Bayh–Dole Act or Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act is United States legislation dealing with intellectual property arising from federal government-funded research. Adopted in 1980, Bayh-Dole is codified in -212, and implemented by 37 C.F.R. 401. Among other things, it gave U.S...
- Patent Reform Act of 2005Patent Reform Act of 2005The Patent Reform Act of 2005 was United States patent legislation proposed in the 109th United States Congress. Texas Republican Congressman Lamar S. Smith introduced the Act on 8 June 2005. Smith called the Act "the most comprehensive change to U.S...
(not enacted) - Patent Reform Act of 2007Patent Reform Act of 2007The Patent Reform Act of 2007 is a proposal introduced in the 110th United States Congress for changes in United States patent law. Democratic Congressman Howard Berman introduced the House of Representatives bill on April 18, 2007. Democratic Party Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the Senate bill...
(not enacted) - Patent Reform Act of 2009Patent Reform Act of 2009The Patent Reform Act of 2009 was a set of proposals introduced in the 111th United States Congress for changes in United States patent law. Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy introduced a Senate bill on March 3, 2009. Representative John Conyers introduced the House version, H.R. 1260, the...
(currently pending legislation)