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Tag: right to use

Patent Infringement, Patentability

Patentability Searches versus “Right to Use” Searches

July 20, 2020July 27, 2020GoDaddy Migration ToolFreedom to Operate, patent search, right to use

Clients often ask us to perform patentability searches to determine whether it’s worth seeking a patent for an invention. The focus of a patentability search is to determine if an invention is novel, i.e., whether all of its features have been disclosed
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Damages, Infringement, Patent Litigation

Can I Make My Patented Product?—The Negative Monopoly Provided by Patents

March 5, 2012March 3, 2012stevehansenopinion of counsel, right to use, willful infringement

  One of the most frequently misunderstood concepts in patent law is that it is a negative monopoly.  That means a patent provides a right to exclude other people from making, using, selling, offering to sell or importing what the patent claims. 
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