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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claim

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A claim is one of the numbered paragraphs that appear at the end of a patent and defines the scope of protection given to the owner of the patent (i.e., the right to prevent others from making, ...

novelty

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One of the conditions that an invention must meet in order to be patentable. Novelty is present if no single piece of prior art discloses every element of the claimed invention.

revocation

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Termination of the protection given to a patent on one or more grounds, e.g. lack of novelty.

patentability

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The ability of an invention to satisfy the legal requirements for obtaining a patent, including novelty. In some countries certain types of inventions, e.g. computer software and plants, may be ...

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A trade agreement signed by President Clinton on December 8, 1994. One resulting change is that a U. S. patent, if granted on an application filed on or after June 8, 1995, will have a term ...

new matter

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Subject matter that was not present in the original application as filed cannot be added to a pending patent application by amendment.

crowded art

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This refers to an area of technology in which there have been a large number of prior inventions. In a crowded art, it takes less of an advancement to obtain a valid patent. Otherwise, one would ...