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A: In the United States, it's possible to add an inventor to a patent that has already been granted, but the process can be intricate and requires specific legal steps. This situation often arises if an inventor was inadvertently omitted from the patent application.

Corrections to granted patents Under section 107 of the Patent Rules, certain errors made by the Commissioner in the patent, or in the specification or drawings of a granted patent can be corrected within 12 months of the issuance of the patent.

The act of reselling or transferring genuine products (including patented products and copyrighted works) that have been legitimately purchased with modifications, retrofittings, processing or replaced parts (“Modifications”) may be an infringement of the intellectual property rights included in the genuine products.

In the realm of invention, improvements to existing patents often emerge as inventors build upon previous work. These are referred to as “patent improvements.” Just like original inventions, these improvements can also be patented if they meet certain criteria.

Application date is the date on which the patent office received the patent application. Publication date is the date on which the patent application is published (i.e. the information is available to public). This normally occurs 18 months after the priority date.

Claim date: The term claim date refers to the date of a claim in a patent application. The claim date is the filing date, unless: there is a prior application that discloses the subject-matter defined by the claim, the subject patent application is filed within 12 months of the filing date of the prior application, and.

To determine when your (or your competitor's) patent expires, first identify the correct filing date of the patent application. A U.S. utility patent (filed on or after June 8, 1995) expires 20 years from the earliest filing date of the patent.

For most countries, the patent number is in the upper right corner of the patent. In the U.S., the date the patent was issued is in the upper right corner below the number. See line 22 in the left columm to see when the patent was filed. Two years is common for a patent to issue from date of file.

A filing date is the date a patent application is received by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Filing dates are important in patent law because they are often used to determine who invented something first and therefore able to hold patent rights to it.