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Patent rights |
| A patent gives the inventor “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States Patents and Trademarks Office or “importing” the invention into the United States Patents and Trademarks Office. 35 U. S. C. §154. |
| Note: a patent does not give the patent holder the right to make, use, or sell the invention; it just gives the right to prevent others from doing so. A patent holder would not have the right to make, use, or sell the invention if doing so violated the law. |
| Patent Law is statutory law. The statute is 35 U. S. C. §1 - §376. |