1: Patent Basics Last updated Save as PDF Page ID 83261 OpenStax OpenStax Figure 1.1 (credit: modification of work “Float Glass Unloading” by ICAPlants/wikimedia.org, CC BY 3.0) 1.1: The Foundations of Patent Protection 1.2: The Weakness of Early Patent Systems 1.3: America's Uniquely Democratic Patent System 1.4: The Role of the U.S. Legal System 1.5: What the U.S. Patent System Wrought 1.6: Patent-Eligible Inventions 1.7: Criteria for Patenting 1.8: Other Types of Patents 1.9: The Patenting Process Chapter 1: Assessment Questions Thumbnail: US Patent (Public Domain; U.S. Patent & Trademark Office via Wikipedia )