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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Workflow incoming amendment IFW

Legal services; Patent & trademark

From Public PAIR/IFW - designates the point in time when an amendment is received in the Office and the paper scanning process may be started at the USPTO; does not indicate whether scanning has ...

Publication for opposition

Legal services; Patent & trademark

If the examining attorney raises no objections to registration, or if the applicant overcomes all objections, the examining attorney will approve the mark for publication in the Official Gazette. ...

Restriction

Legal services; Patent & trademark

If two or more independent and distinct inventions are claimed in a single application, the examiner may require the applicant to elect (designate) a single invention to which the claims will be ...

X patent

Legal services; Patent & trademark

In the 46 years prior to the Great Fire of 1836, the United States government had issued about 10,000 patents. Most of these could never be revived again, but Congress acted to restore those records ...

Recordation form cover sheet

Legal services; Patent & trademark

USPTO form that trademark owners use to record trademark assignments (changes in ownership of marks for applications and registrations) and a trademark owner’s change of entity name. The form is ...

Trademark application and registration retrieval system (TARR)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

USPTO’s online database for monitoring federal trademark applications and registrations. Using TARR, applicants, trademark owners and the public may cheque the status of pending trademark ...

Trademark electronic search system (TESS)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

USPTO’s online database for searching pending, registered and dead federal trademarks. TESS is free and intended for use by the general public. Due to limitations of equipment and bandwidth, TESS is ...