There Are Different Kinds of Patents
There are three different types of patents granted by the United States government:
a utility patent, a design patent, and a plant patent.
Each type of patent protects a different type of invention. For example,
a utility patent protects structure or utilitarian features or steps;
a design
patent
protects appearance features; and a
plant patent protects asexually reproduced plants including cultivated
hybrids, mutants, sports and seedlings not found in an uncultivated state.
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