There is a debate over this topic that text and images of patent are subject of copyright protection. I have researched over this and found out that the answer to this debate is no.
Copyright: Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of "original
works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic,
and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished.
The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the
exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative
works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to
perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted
work publicly.
Patent: A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the
inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new
patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent
was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an
earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of
maintenance fees.
The text of patent is made by research and references the inventor has cited with little or no modification from the prior art, hence their text and images can not be copyrighted. There is disclosure part in patent body which is subjected to copyright.
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