A patent is a creation that allows the transformation of matter or energy existing in nature for human use.

A patent is a name that serves to designate a product originating from a specific geographic region whose quality or characteristics are exclusively due to the geographic environment.

A patent is a new and industrially applicable form, configuration, structure or ornamentation of an industrial product.

A patent is any confidential industrial information that provides a competitive or economic advantage to a person or company and for which sufficient means or systems have been adopted to preserve its confidentiality and restricted access.