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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Auslegeschrift

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An examined German patent application (second publication) now eliminated.

obviousness

Legal services; Patent & trademark

If the invention could readily be deduced at the time the invention was made from publicly available information (prior art) by a person of ordinary skill in that art, it is obvious. Prior art may ...

abandon

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The explicit or implicit relinquishment of a potential patent right. Simple inaction may render a patent right abandoned.

non-convention equivalents

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An application filed in a second, or subsequent country which does not claim a priority application in another country. Usually a result of filing the application after the 12 month Convention ...

contributory infringement

Legal services; Patent & trademark

This involves someone supplying a component that is a material part of a product, apparatus, composition of matter, or process with knowledge that it is uniquely adapted for use in infringing a ...

public use

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A public or commercial use of an invention. If the public use occurred more than one year before the filing date of the patent application, obtaining a U. S. patent would be barred. If a use is ...