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雖然你不能替新的流行風格申請專利,但是你可以替新的材料或製造衣服的方法申請專利

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瑪麗凱斯 (Mary Kies) 在180955日成為第一個得到美國專利權的女性

如果你有一個新發明的好點子怎麼辦?讓你的髮型整天都好看的髮膠?最棒的螺旋足球?還是能夠裝下所有學校資料的背包?為了要保護你的新發明,你應該要去申請專利。 所謂的專利,是指由政府頒訂的認可證明,使發明人在一定的期間內,擁有完全的權利能製造、使用,或販賣他的發明。目前,許多國家大概都把保護期間訂為1620年。專利權通常會頒給新式且有用的機器、製造產品、工業過程例如凱斯的編織法以及對現在製造過程有顯著改進的方法等。專利權能夠鼓勵企業家,例如織布工與製帽者瑪麗凱斯等人,能夠一直創造更新且更好的產品。


What if you come up with a great idea for a new invention? The Good-Hair-Day Hairspray, the perfect spiral football, a backpack that flies you to school. To protect your new invention, you would get a patent. A patent is a government grant that gives the inventor the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention, usually for a limited period. Nowadays it's 16 to 20 years in most countries. Patents are granted to new and useful machines, manufactured products, industrial processes--such as Kies's method of weaving--and significant improvements of existing processes. Patents encourage entrepreneurs, like weaver and hat maker Mary Kies, to create new and better products all the time.
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