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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duty of disclosure

Legal services; Patent & trademark

This is a requirement imposed on all persons involved with the patenting process to disclosure information (patents, articles, laboratory data etc. ) to the patent examiner that may affect the ...

offenlegungsschrift

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An published unexamined German patent document.

pending

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The period in which the patent office has not yet decided whether to reject or to grant a patent application, and it has not yet been withdrawn.

constructive reduction to practice

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A reduction to practice involves physical verification of the operability of the invention or its suitability for its intended purpose. When one files a U. S. patent application, one obtains a ...

exceptional case

Legal services; Patent & trademark

In order to seek an attorneys' fees award as part of the relief granted to the prevailing party in patent litigation, it is necessary to show that the case has unusual circumstances. In general, it ...

world intellectual property office (WIPO)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The organization that administers the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

iPad trademark

Law; Patent & trademark

The registered trade name of Apple's popular iPad computers in the U.S and many other countries except China. The trademark allows Apple to use the term "iPad" exclusively to market and sell its ...