From the course: Understanding Patents: A Deeper Dive
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What is infringement?
From the course: Understanding Patents: A Deeper Dive
What is infringement?
- Patent infringement is the act of making, using, selling, or offering to sell a patented invention or importing into the United States a product covered by a claim of a patent without the permission of the patent owner. I've walked you through a patent application. You remember that there are many components to the patent including the background of the invention and other disclosures. But when it comes to infringement, we must focus on the claims. The claims are the metes and bounds of the patent. The claims are like the description of your property, if you own real estate. Let's take a look at an example. I'll use my daughter's patent application as our example. The first claim reads as follows, "A method of sharing possessions between friends "that are connected on a social network "that allows friends to post items to share, "and allows friends to view the items shared "with their friends." To infringe the patent, you must infringe each and every part of the claim. Here we would…
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