A patent is a legal right granted by a government authority to inventors or assignees, providing them with exclusive rights to make, use, sell, or distribute their inventions for a defined period of time, typically lasting 20 years from the filing date of the patent, during which others are legally prohibited from using, selling, or commercially exploiting the invention without explicit permission from the patent holder, who holds the authority to enforce the patent, and this exclusive right is awarded only for inventions that meet specific criteria, including novelty, usefulness, and being non-obvious, while covering a broad range of fields such as technological innovations and industrial processes that drive progress and development, with the purpose of granting patents being twofold: first,  advancement, industrial development, and commercialization, as granting these exclusive rights incentivizes inventors to invest in research, development, and the realization of their ideas, making the patent system integral to promoting innovation, protecting inventors, advancing industries, and supporting economic progress, while ensuring that without patents, innovation might be stifled, creativity discouraged, industries challenged, and inventors demotivated, but with patents, new technologies are developed, new processes are discovered, new industries are created, and society as a whole benefits from advancements in science, technology, and industry, as the patent system ensures fairness for inventors, businesses, and the economy, balancing the rights of inventors, the needs of society, and the demands of progress, ultimately encouraging innovation for the future and benefiting all.