What you need to know about patent types

A software application patent protects the way in which something is utilized and how it works, for instance a process or article of an operation, a product, or composition of matter. Utility patents are what exactly they appear in this they literally aim at an invention with a useful function or purpose such as a new power hand tool, a brand new car engine, etc. A design patent is because of the visual shape or design embodied in or applied to a piece of writing of manufacture.
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