Published on in “Business”, language — English. 9 pages.
A patent is a set of exclusive rights given to creator/inventor to exclude others from making a duplicate copy of his/her findings viz. to exclude others from selling, making and using for limited time (usually 20 years). Patents can be granted in different countries, each having slightly different rules or legal formalities. Now if one wants to have legal protection over his invention in multiple countries, it would require him to file multiple patents for each country or region. More
