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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kokai

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An unexamined Japanese patent application.

assignee

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The person or corporate body to whom all or limited rights under a patent are legally transferred. Assignment Transfer of all or limited rights under a patent.

equivalent

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A patent entering the Derwent system which relates to the same invention and shares the same priority application as a patent from a different issuing authority already held in Derwent World Patents ...

terminal disclaimer

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Where an obviousness-type double patenting rejection has occurred, an applicant may file a document indicating that the term of the second patent will end upon expiration of the first patent to ...

disposal

Legal services; Patent & trademark

In some countries, such as the USA, this refers to where an application has been resolved by being withdrawn, rejected or granted. It can also have the connotation of being rejected only.

request for reexamination

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A request filed by a patentee or a third party seeking reexamination of one or more claims of a patent based upon an alleged substantial new issue of patentability due to printed prior art not ...