Patent basics
Utility Patents
Design Patents
Plant Patents
Extra
100

The function of a patent

What is to protect your inventions/ exclude others from using it?

100

True or false: Utility patents have a fee

What is true?

100

The amount of design patents given (get within 10,000)

What is 34,877

100

How long does a plant patent last?

What is 20 years

100

Where do you file a patent.

What is the USPTO (Untied States Panent Trademark Office)

200

Is a patent a form of property

What is Yes (Intellectual Property).

200
The duration of a design patent

What is 14-15 years?

200

Can you buy patents?

What is Yes

300

What is the action of monopolizing on a patent while making same changes to it.

What is "Evergreening"

300

What is the difference between a patent, trademark, and copyright?

        Patent                         Trademark                     Copyright

Technical invention.           Specific phrase,             Artistic, literary

                                       word or design.             and intellectual

                                                                          property.

400

 The average approval rate for Utility patents (get within a 3 percent range)

What is 51.4%?

400

The average approval rate for design patents (get within 3 percent)

What is 69.2%?

400

The average approval rate for plant patents (get within 3 percent)

What is 96.4%?

500

Most patents held by a person/company (get within 4,000)

What is 166,000?

500

The use of a utility patent.

New/Useful process, machine, way of manufacture, new matter.

500

The use of a design patent.

New/Ornamental designs for manufactured products.

500

The use of a plant patent

What is to protect plants that needs human help and new plant species?

500

What does the EpiPen company do?

What is "Evergreening"?