Utility Patent Drawings

What is a Patent?

If an invention is

• a new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter,

• or a new and useful improvement,

It is referred to as a Patent or Utility Patent.

 

It generally permits its owner to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention for a period of up to twenty years from the date of patent application filing, subject to the payment of maintenance fees.