This means that a product, process, apparatus, or composition of matter satisfies every recital of a claim literally.

One may be held liable for patent infringement as a result of actively encouraging another to infringe if such other does infringe, even though the inducer has not made, used, sold, offered for sale, [..]

This refers to a patent claim, which describes structurally a piece of equipment and is embraced by the expression "machine" in the definition of patentable subject matter in the U.S. Patent [..]

A written document seeking patent protection and filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or a patent office outside of the United States. In the United States, the application must include a d [..]

As a measure of damages in patent-infringement litigation, apportionment generally refers to dividing the profits on the sale of a particular piece of apparatus or a product according to the percentag [..]

In exceptional cases in patent infringement litigation, the court may require the losing party to pay the attorneys' fees of the prevailing party.

A patent application is required to disclose the best means known to the applicant of practicing the invention as of the date of filing the application.

Issued upon patentee request due to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or applicant minor error in the patent such as printing, typographical, or clerical errors.

A claim is one of the numbered paragraphs that appear at the end of a patent and defines the scope of protection given to the owner of the patent (i.e., the right to prevent others from making, using, [..]

Under Section 102 of the U.S. Patent Statute, a claim must be identically disclosed in a single prior-art reference in order to be rejected as being anticipated by prior art. Under Section 103 of the [..]