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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group art unit

Legal services; Patent & trademark

(may be abbreviated "AU," "GAU" or "Grp Art Unit" on Office correspondence) - a working unit responsible for a cluster of related patent art. Staffed by one supervisory patent examiner (SPE) and a ...

attorney

Legal services; Patent & trademark

(may be referred to as a practitioner or representative) - an individual who is a member in good standing of the bar of any United States court or the highest court of any State and who is registered ...

agent (patent)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

(may be referred to as a practitioner or representative) - one who is not an attorney but is authorized to act for or in place of the applicant(s) before the Office, that is, an individual who is ...

customer number

Legal services; Patent & trademark

(previously referred to as "payor number") - a number assigned by the Office that is used to simplify the submission of an address change, to appoint a practitioner, or to designate the fee address ...

composed of

Legal services; Patent & trademark

(used when defining the scope of a claim) A transitional phrase that is interpreted in the same manner as either "consisting of" or "consisting essentially of," depending on the facts of the ...

comprising

Legal services; Patent & trademark

(used when defining the scope of a claim) A transitional phrase that is synonymous with (means the same thing as) "including," "containing" or "characterized by;" is inclusive or open-ended and does ...

certificate of mailing

Legal services; Patent & trademark

a certificate for each piece of correspondence mailed, prior to the expiration of the set period of time for response, stating the date of deposit with the U.S. Postal Service and including a ...