Patent & trademark

Patent & trademark

Terms related to patent and trademark applications and infringement litigations. A patent is a form of intellectual property and associated rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time. A trademark, on the other hand, is a distinctive mark or name used by an individual or business organization to identify and distinguish its products or services from those of other entities.

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continuation-in-part

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Generally referred to as a 'C. I. P' this is essentially the same as the continuation with the exception that some new material may be included. The disclosure of the parent is usually amplified and ...

active inducement to infringe

Legal services; Patent & trademark

One may be held liable for patent infringement as a result of actively encouraging another to infringe if such other does infringe, even though the inducer has not made, used, sold, offered for sale, ...

how to use

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This is a similar standard to the "how-to-make" standard and relates to the use aspect of an invention, if appropriate.

file wrapper

Legal services; Patent & trademark

This is the collection of documents located in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office including a patent application and communications by the applicant and the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

forfeited application

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An application on which the issue or maintenance fee has not been paid within the designated period.

profits

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Direct recovery of the patent infringer's profits is not possible in a case of infringement of a utility patent, but may, under proper circumstances, be employed as a measure of the patentee's ...