WGU C713 Study Guide (V.3) Unit 4 (2022/2023) 100% Pass
What is a patent? ✔✔sole legal right to an invention and its profits
What are three different types of patents? ✔✔Utility patents: may be granted for machines, processes, articles of manufacture, or improvements. Design patents: granted for ornamental designs for articles of manufacture. Plant patents: cover inventions or discoveries of asexually reproduced plants.
What types of things are not patentable? ✔✔an idea, physical phenomena, laws of nature, abstract ideas and artistic works.
How can genetically modified agricultural products be patented? ✔✔they are useful, new and non-obvious.
What are the procedures for obtaining a patent? ✔✔fill out patent application, time consuming and expensive, many times done with a patent attorney.
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