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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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Non-final office action
Legal services; Patent & trademark
An Office action letter that raises new issues and usually is the first phase of the examination process. An examining attorney will issue a non-final Office action after reviewing the application ...
Activity based management (ABM)
Legal services; Patent & trademark
A management methodology that combines ABC with business process analysis techniques to run, improve and measure performance for a business or organization.
Invention
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Any art or process (way of doing or making things), machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be ...
Joint inventor
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An inventor who is named with at least one other inventor in a patent application, wherein each inventor contributes to the conception of the invention set forth in at least one claim in a patent ...
Divisional application
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A later application for an independent or distinct invention disclosing and claiming (only a portion of and) only subject matter disclosed in the earlier or parent application.
Technical review board (TRB)
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An internal OCIO group that reviews IT project development at critical stages for conformance with USPTO standards and guidance.
Bio-sequence listings
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A document that must be included only if a nucleotide or amino acid sequence is part of the invention. With EFS, paper documents are not required for bio-sequence or subsequent bio-sequence ...
