FAQs Patent Questions

Question:Will the USPTO advise me as to whether a certain patent promotion organization is reliable and trustworthy?

Answer:
No. The Office has no control over such organizations. The Office will publish complaints regarding invention promoters and replies from the invention promoters. The Office will not undertake any investigation of the invention promoters.

Question:What is a patent?

Answer:
A patent is a property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.

Question:What is the Electronic Official Gazette - Patents (eOG:P)?

Answer:
The eOG:P delivers the information traditionally contained in the paper version of the OG but in an electronic format on both a CD-ROM product and on the USPTO web site.

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