Patent infringement is the unauthorized making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing of a product or process protected by a granted patent, carried out without the patent holder's permission, which is normally granted through a license. What counts as infringing depends on the claims defined in the specific granted patent, and the exact legal definition of infringement varies by jurisdiction. Because patent rights are territorial, an act can infringe a patent in one country while remaining entirely lawful in another where no equivalent patent is registered and in force. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Has Offense Grade
Entity-backed identity for the offense-grade enum value this offense already carries, resolved to a crime concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The offense-grade fact itself stays on the offense unchanged.
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Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of - for example - making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product.
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