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If an application is abandoned due to a USPTO Office error, an applicant may file a request to reinstate the application, instead of a petition to revive. There is no fee for a request for reinstatement. You must file a request for reinstatement within two months of the issue date of the notice of abandonment. You must include a true copy of the document that was timely submitted, and a copy of an acceptable form of proof of receipt in the USPTO.
Industry:Legal services
implement streamlined patent practice; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
Industry:Legal services
in the context of actions or activities involving the USPTO this refers to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) itself
Industry:Legal services
information that companies keep secret to give them an advantage over their competitors
Industry:Legal services
Inter partes reexamination practice primarily differs from ex parte practice in that the third party requestor may file written comments addressing issues raised by the patent owner in a response to Office action.
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may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant. --see also patent
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may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new, useful, and nonobvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
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NOA, a notification to the applicant that they are entitled to a patent under the law and requesting payment of a specified issue fee (and possibly a publication fee as well) within three months (non-extendable) from the mailing date of the notice of allowance
Industry:Legal services
one who contributes to the conception of an invention. The patent law of the United States of America requires that the applicant in a patent application must be the inventor.
Industry:Legal services
one who stands for or acts on behalf of another. A patent attorney or patent agent may represent the inventors named in a patent application.
Industry:Legal services
