The ______ Patent Covers Inventions That Are Unique or Have

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Multiple Choice

The ______ patent covers inventions that are unique or have new uses or functions.

• A) utility
• B) design
• C) plant
• D) novelty

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Definitions:

Ring Oxygen

An oxygen atom that is incorporated into a cyclic structure, often contributing to the ring's chemical properties.

Haworth Structure

A way of representing cyclic sugars as planar rings, focusing on the arrangement of hydroxyl groups around the ring, used in carbohydrate chemistry.

β-D-Glucopyranose

A chemical structure of glucose in its cyclic form, where the glucose molecule forms a six-membered ring, with the hydroxyl group on the first carbon in the beta configuration.

α-D-Ribofuranose

A sugar derivative where the pentose sugar ribose is in its furanose form (a five-membered oxygen-containing ring) and has a specific orientation (alpha) of the hydroxyl group attached to the anomeric carbon.