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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
teach
Legal services; Patent & trademark
To inform and instruct by way of the documents making up the prior art. The prior art references teach the technology disclosed in them or revealed by them.
infringe
Legal services; Patent & trademark
To make, use or sell the patented item or process within the country covered by the patent without permission or licence from the patentee.
division
Legal services; Patent & trademark
If the patent office decides that an application covers too large an area to be considered as a single patent, then the application is split into one or more divisional applications. A divisional ...
independent claim
Legal services; Patent & trademark
This is a claim that stands by itself and must be so read in terms of infringement and validity evaluations. This is contrasted with a dependent claim.
critical date
Legal services; Patent & trademark
This refers to the date of the initial placing on sale, publication, or public or commercial use of an invention. At the end of the one-year period, a U. S. patent application cannot be filed ...
preamble
Legal services; Patent & trademark
The formal introductory clause of a patent claim. Depending on the circumstances, the preamble may or may not define a narrowing element of the claim. The preamble usually only defines the setting ...
opposition
Legal services; Patent & trademark
The time period allowed for an interested party to post oppositions to the grant of a patent. For example, this may be up to nine months from the date of grant of a European patent.
