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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markush

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A term used to describe the series of compounds covered by a patent claim, where the compound is defined as a basic structure with a variable list of possible substituents (e.g. where R=H, alkyl, ...

notice

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Placing the word "patent" with the patent number on articles made by the patentee or a licensee. If the patentee fails to mark his or her products, then the patentee may recover only damages for ...

Paris Convention

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The Paris Convention was established March 20 1883, effective July 7 1884, and amended June 2 1934 and July 14 1967. Signatories to the Paris Convention are allowed one year from first filing their ...

obvious to try

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The validity of a patent can be challenged by attempting to show that what the inventor did would have been obvious to try based on the prior art, and, therefore, the invention would have been ...

invention

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In the United States, in order to have a patentable invention, one must have a development that is useful, novel (no single prior art reference shows the identical development), and unobvious to one ...

experimental use

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Under Section 102 of the Patent Statute, there are a number of statutory bars which state that one cannot file a U. S. patent application more than one year after the initial placing on sale, ...

continuation

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Applicable mainly in the US, continuations are second or subsequent applications which are subsequently filed while the original parent application is pending. Continuations must claim the same ...