Patents

In most countries, including the United States, there is no requirement that the inventor build a prototype or otherwise reduce his or her invention to actual practice in order to obtain a patent. The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent or exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell or importing the claimed invention. Get Patent and trademark information in the United States, including free database searching of registered trademarks, registration information, pricing and contact phone numbers. Inventors can obtain patents and then sell them to third parties or license the technology for a fee. You can search more than seven million US patents online.