A patent is a legal term that describes an approval by the government, that grants an investor a license for a given time. It is particularly defined as the exclusive privilege to prevent competitors from producing and selling an invention.
Hence, the way in which Thomas Edison hopes to capitalize on his innovations is by having or securing over 1,000 patents for his inventions.
<span>Thomas Jefferson stressed that civil liberties needed to be protected. He also stressed that there needed to be a capital where they could keep track of everything going on in the country.</span>
