Patents

What is the best answer to explain what a patent is?

• A patent is a document that protects your invention or from someone stealing your invention

• A patent is a invention

• A patent prevents you from being robbed

What is one example of a invention?

• Tree

• Rocks

• Rubic's Cube

• H20

Patons not only protect your inventions but they can earn you

———————. So you creative people start patenting. Fill in the blank.

• Money

• Profits

• Inventors

• Time

Which of the following protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.

• service mark

• trademark

• patent

• copyright

Patentable materials include machines, manufactured articles, industrial processes, and chemical compositions.

• True

• False

A patent typically protects inventions, like new engines and solar panels.

• True

• False

If you invent a new type of vacuum cleaner, you might apply for a patent.

• True

• False

Patents must all of the following but

• Useful

• Creditable

• Novel

• Non-obvious

Plant patents apply to

• Industrial plants

• Vegetation

• Bacteria

• Movies

All patents must be "maintained" by paying a fee to the US Patent & Trademark Office at certain intervals.

• True

• False