Patent Rights
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A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention.

The procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patentee and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely between countries according to national laws and international agreements. Typically, however, a patent application must include one or more claims defining the invention which must be new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable. The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent or exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell or importing the invention.

• BizEsp - Offers intellectual capital market place for the technology industry. Includes directory and message board.
• Centre Relais Innovation France Centr'Est - Catalog of technology offers from member companies in France.
• Delphi Oracle Corp. - Offering licenses for issued and pending patents for products such as razors, syringes, gearboxes, microarray processing and shoelace treatments.
• Garden Weasel - Offers promotion of newly invented home and garden products to the mass retail market. Includes success invention stories, contact forms and tips.
• Help-Forward - Technology transfer broker based in Greece.
• InnoCentive - Web-based community matching scientists to R&D challenges presented by companies worldwide.
• Invention Connection - Features inventions available for sale, licensing, investment, distribution, and manufacturing in a range of diversified industries.
• Inventors' Net - Marketplace for the sale and purchase of inventions.
• Inventors Showcase - Assist inventors in finding investment funding to retail sales. Includes FAQ, directory, guestbook and message board.
• I.P. Foundry, Inc. - Acting as a broker for licensing of intellectual prpoerty.
• IP Market Holdings - Offers a directory for buying, selling and promoting IP agents. Includes FAQ and site searching.
• Market Launchers - Lists new inventions available for sale or licensing and builds inventor web sites.
• New Idea Trade - Global forum for the sale of inventions, patents and crafts.
• NineSigma - Offers innovation sourcing solutions by pairing clients' innovation needs with individual, academic, and corporate solution providers.
• PatentData - International specialist database of patented technology available under license agreements.
• Pharmalicensing.com - An online resource for pharmaceutical and medical biotech technology licensing and collaboration.
• PharmaRegistrations - European licensing opportunities for drug and technology development and market research.
• yet2.com - Marketplace for licensable technologies.