Glossary of Patent Terms
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A ------------------------------------------------
Abandon
Abandoned Application
Absolute Novelty
Abstract of the Disclosure
Affidavit
Aggregation
Alpha Subclasses
Allowance, Notice of
Amendment
Annuity
Anticipation
Appeal
Appeal Brief
Appeal, Notice of
Applicant
Application (for Patent)
Application, Continuation
Application, Continuation-in-Part
Application, Divisional
Application Series
Article of Manufacture
Assert
Assignee
Assignment
Assignor
Auslegeschrift
B ------------------------------------------------
Bar, Statutory
Basic Patent
Board of Appeals
Brevet
C ------------------------------------------------
CCPA
CFR
c-i-p
Citations
Claim(s)
Claim, Dependent
Claim, Generic
Claim, Independent
Claim, Jepson
Claim, Markush
Claim, Multiple Dependent
Claim, Process
Claim, Product
Claim, Species
Claim, Specific
Colorable Deviation
Combination, Patentable
Composition of Matter
Comprising
Conception
Consisting of
Contributory Infringement
Continuation
Convention
Convention, EPC (or EPO)
Convention, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
Convention Date
Corroboration
Count(s)
Counterpart
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA)
Cross-Licenses
Cross-Reference
D ------------------------------------------------
Declaration
Dedication
Defensive Publication
Dependent Claim
Deposition
Design Patent
Diligence
Direct Infringement
Disclaimer
Disclosure
Disclosure Document Program
Discovery
Disposal
Doctrine of Equivalents
Dominated
Double Patenting
Drawing
Duty of Disclosure
E ------------------------------------------------
Effective Date
Election
EPC
Equivalent
European Patent Convention or Organization
Examination
Examiner
Example
Execute
Ex Parte
Experimental Use
Expiry
Extension of Time
F ------------------------------------------------
Fee, Filing
Fee, Issue
Fee, Maintenance
Fee, Petition
File History
File Wrapper
File Wrapper Estoppel
Filing Date
First to File
First to Invent
Forfeited Application
Front Page Drawing
G ------------------------------------------------
Gebrauchsmuster
Grant
H ------------------------------------------------
Harmonization
I ------------------------------------------------
IIB
Indemnity from Suit
Inducement to Infringe
Infringe
INPADOC
Interference
Intervening Rights
Invalid
Invention, Abandoned
Inventive Entity
Inventor, First
Inventor, Joint
J ------------------------------------------------
K ------------------------------------------------
Kokai
Kokoku
L ------------------------------------------------
Label License
Lapsing
License
M ------------------------------------------------
Machine
Maintenance Fee
Manufacture
Marking, Patent
Markush
Markush Group
Mesne Agreement
N ------------------------------------------------
New Matter
Nonassertion Letter
Non-Convention Application
Notice of Allowability
Notice of Allowance and Issue Fee Due
Novelty
O ------------------------------------------------
Oath, Inventor's
Obviousness
Octooi
Offenlegungsschrift
Office Action or Official Action
O.G.
O.J.(P)
One-Year Grace Period
Open for Public Inspection (OPI)
OPI
Opinion, Patentability
Opinion, Validity
Opposition
P ------------------------------------------------
Patent
Patent Agent or Attorney
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
Patent Family
Patent Marking
Patent Pending
Patent Search
Patent Watch
Patent Watch Services
Patentability
Patentee
Pending
Petty Patent
Person Skilled in the Art
Petitions
Petition for Extension of Time
Petition to Revive
Plant Patent
Preliminary Amendment
Preliminary Examination
Preliminary Statement
Prior Art
Priority Date
Priority Document
Process
Proprietary Information
Prosecution
Publication
Public Sale
Public Use
Q ------------------------------------------------
R ------------------------------------------------
Reads on
Reduction to Practice, Actual
Reduction to Practice, Constructive
Reexamination
Reference
Reissue Patent
Rejection
Rejection, Final
Request for Reconsideration
Restriction
Revocation
S ------------------------------------------------
Search Report
Serial Number
SIR
Specification
Status
Statutory Invention Registration (SIR)
Statutory Period
Substantive Examination
T ------------------------------------------------
Term of a Patent
Terminal Disclaimer
Trade Secret
Traverse
U ------------------------------------------------
Unenforceable
Unobvious
Useful
Utility
Utility Model
V ------------------------------------------------
Valid
W ------------------------------------------------
WIPO
Worked or Working
Withdrawn
Y ------------------------------------------------
X ------------------------------------------------
Z ------------------------------------------------
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