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Vew-Do's patent gives information about the effect that its roller's shape has on the board's movement.
That patent gives LinkShare the right to block anyone from using such an arrangement.
Once granted, patents give the holder a monopoly to produce, sell or profit from an invention for a period of years.
Because patents give temporary monopolies on new drugs, they are the main incentives for new research.
Since then, all new patents issued are preserved and given a serial patent number started from 1.
The patent, issued last year, gave new life to a decades-old drug that had fallen into disuse.
A patent gives you legal protection against infringement on your ideas and inventions.
These patents give the drug companies a virtual monopoly in the protected product for the term of the patent.
A patent gives its owner the right to exclude other people from making, using, selling or importing their invention.