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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Classification

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Patents are classified (organized) in the U.S. by a system using a 3 digit class and a 3 digit subclass to describe every similar grouping of patent art. A single invention may be described by ...

Redacted publication

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A patent application publication that omits material that was present in the specification or claims of the nonprovisional patent application filed in the USPTO. See 37 CFR 1.217 and MPEP 1132 for ...

Common law rights

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Property or other legal rights that do not absolutely require formal registration in order to enforce them. Proving such rights for a trademark in court can be very difficult, requires meticulous ...

Primary examiner

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A patent examiner who is fully authorised to sign office actions (signatory authority) regarding patentability

Non-final office action (rejection)

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An Office action made by the examiner where the applicant is entitled to reply and request reconsideration or further examination, with or without making an amendment. On taking up an application for ...

Use in commerce

Legal services; Patent & trademark

For the purpose of obtaining federal registration, "commerce" means all commerce that the U.S. Congress may lawfully regulate; for example, interstate commerce or commerce between the U.S. and ...

Request (PCT)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Form PCT/RO/101, filed with an international application in a receiving Office, which includes an indication of applicant(s) and a designation of one or more Contracting States.