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In the United States only inventors can apply for patents. However, inventors can (and often do) transfer ownership of patent applications and issued patents to others, such as the inventor's employer corporation. In some cases, an employee agreement requires inventors to make such transfers.

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In the United States, only the United States Patent & Trademark Office. In other nations, the appropriate national counterpart of the USPTO.

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anybody with an original and untaken idea with an invention to prove it

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