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Public domain

The text of U.S. patents is in the public domain [1]. Patent illustrations may be copyrighted, but U.S. patent regulations explicitly require applicants to allow "the facsimile reproduction by any­one of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records" (37 C.F.R. 1.71). The patent on the invention itself may not yet have expired, and trademark protection is not affected by a mark's appearance in a patent.

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