How much do you know about Patents? "Intellectual" property is as important to the Twenty first Century as real property has been in the past. The Constitution grants Congress the power to promote Science by given Inventors limited exclusive rights to their inventions. Thus patents are a property right, much like real and personal property, only patents are a form of "intellectual property." How long and what are they good for? When do they become part of the "public domain"? And just what is meant by "prior art? Most importantly would you recognize when to have a client call a Patent Attorney in order to protect a valuable "intellectual" property right? This is the Twenty-first Century isn't it time you spent at least one hour learning the basics legal issues surrounding Patents?

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