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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Time period after which a utility patent (that issues from an application filed on or after 12 December 1980) expires if a maintenance fee has not been paid. A petition must be filed along with the ...

Design patent application

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An application for a patent to protect against the unauthorised use of new, original, and ornamental designs for articles of manufacture

Patent infringement

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Unauthorised making, using, offering to sell, selling or importing into the United States any patented invention

Application (patent)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An application for patent filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) that includes all types of patent applications (i.e., utility, design, plant, and reissue) except provisional applications. The nonprovisional ...

Parent application

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The term "parent" is applied to an earlier application of the inventor disclosing a given invention

Use-based application

Legal services; Patent & trademark

There are 4 filing bases on which an application may be based. One filing basis is use of the mark in commerce (the other three are filing based on an intent-to-use the mark in commerce, filing based ...

Certification mark

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce by someone other than its owner, to certify regional or other origin, material, mode of manufacture, ...