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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Patent & trademark

preliminary examination

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The initial study of an application by an official in the patent office to check that the specification is properly arranged and for preparing search reports.

anticipation

Legal services; Patent & trademark

This is when the prior art indicates that a patent application lacks novelty.

basic patent

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The first member of a Derwent patent family. This may or may not be the first published patent (which is usually the first to be documented by services such as Derwent World Patents Index).

application for patent

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Papers comprising petition, specification, drawings (when required), one or more claims, oath or declaration and filing fee, whereby an applicant seeks a patent.

reinstatement

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Restoring a patent to protection after it has apparently lapsed by error or been revoked.

examples

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A worked description of one aspect (embodiment) of theinvention within the patent application. Possible alternative embodiments of the invention within the patent application, with little detail ...

prior art

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The existing body of technological information against which an invention is judged to determine if it is patentable as being novel and unobvious. It must be early enough in time to be cited against ...