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Patent
Definition:
In the United States, a grant by the federal government to an inventor of the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention.
Equivalents
Definition:
A rule of claim interpretation under which a product or process, although not a literal infringement, is still an infringement if it performs substantially the same way as the patented invention.
Public domain
Definition:
Public domain refers to works that are not protected by copyright and are publicly available. They may be used by anyone, anywhere, anytime without permission, license or royalty payment
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