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A standards is a publication which states an agreed way of doing something. This ensures consistency and reliability in a product and provides a quality benchmark for anyone not involved in development. Standards are used in Engineering to ensure anything you make or design meets these requirements.
Standards often contain technical specifications and guidelines for manufacture. Many companies and countries have their own standard guidelines while ISO standards are agreed internationally.
A patent is a document granting the sole right for development and manufacture of an idea to the inventor for a set period of time. In the UK patents are granted by the Intellectual Property Office and are only valid in the UK.
To be patentable an idea must be new, be innovative and ideally have useful application.
Patents are used in Engineering to protect ideas and inventions and to identify any prior art.
Once granted patents are freely available from a number os sources:
