Wallenburg wrote:Auralia wrote:I concur with this reasoning. The language is a holdover from an older resolution that defined patents as the right to use, manufacture, offer for sale, etc. the invention, as opposed to merely the right to exclude others from doing so. This definition is, of course, incorrect.
"Actually, you are incorrect, Ambassador. My sources hold that 'the right conferred by the patent grant is the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention. What is granted is not'--not, if I may emphasize--'the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention.'"
OOC: https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-s ... #heading-2
((OOC: I think we're actually saying the same thing. I was referring to Foreign Patent Recognition, not Foreign Patent Act.))