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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inventive entity

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This refers to the inventor or inventors named in a patent application or patent.

continuation-in-part application

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This is a continuation application that adds new matter to a previously filed copending application and need not name the identical inventive entity.

utility

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Fitness for some desirable practical or commercial purpose.

infringement

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Someone who makes, uses, sells, places on sale, or imports into the United States a claimed invention is guilty of infringement. There can be direct or literal infringement, infringement under the ...

reissue

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An application filed by a patentee after a patent has issued to correct applicant's errors that rendered the patent wholly or partly inoperative due to a defective specification or drawings or which ...