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Intellectual Property - Patents and Trademarks: Patent Document Examples

How to read a patent?

Briefly, the "claims" session in the patent document is the part to point out the patent rights. The rest of the document is to support and help readers to understand the claims.

Patent Examples

Sample 1

6070148
Electronic Commerce System and Method for Providing Commercial Information in Electronic Commerce System  
Mori et al.  
May 30, 2000

 PDF Drawings set 1  
PDF Drawings set 2 PDF Drawings set 3  
Patent Text  

Sample 2

2052444
Bookkeeping Machine  
Breitling  
August 25, 1936

 PDF Drawings set 1  
PDF Drawings set 2  
PDF Drawings set 3  
 Patent Text  

US Patent Document

Issued Patent       Patent Applications
US 20100329499 A1 2010/0329499 A1 *
US 20070028346 A1 2006/0280322
  2011/0129110

International Patent