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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drawing

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One or more specially-prepared figures filed as a part of a patent application to explain and describe the invention. Drawings (or illustrations, where appropriate) are more commonly found with ...

divisional application

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A divisional application is a separate patent application carved out of a prior pending application and discloses and claims only subject matter originally claimed in the prior application. The ...

Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT)

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The P. C. T. was signed in Washington D. C. on June 19 1970 and entered into force January 24 1978. It was amended with effective dates of May 3 1984 and January 1 1985. There are currently 96 ...

specification

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The part of the patent application that precedes the claims and in which the inventor specifies, describes, illustrates, and discloses the invention in detail.

inventor

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One who contributes to the conception and reduction to practice of one or more of the claims in a patent application or patent.

doctrine of claim differentiation

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This is a judicially created rule of construction that states that when two claims in the same patent have an apparently similar or identical meaning, an effort should be made to adopt an ...

citations

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Citations may be made by the examiner or author. They comprise a list of references that are believed to be relevant prior art and which may have contributed to the "narrowing" of the original ...