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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Image file wrapper (IFW)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An electronic version of a patent application, including image and/or text versions of the bibliographic information, all papers as filed, and all office actions and correspondence related to that ...

Reissue application

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An application for a patent to take the place of an unexpired patent that is defective in one or more particulars (items or details) --see MPEP 201.05 and MPEP 1400.

Contracting party

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A country or intergovernmental organisation that is a member of the Madrid Protocol.

Nonprovisional patent application

Legal services; Patent & trademark

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

Standard character format

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An applicant may submit a standard character format representation of a mark if (1) All letters and words in the mark are depicted in Latin characters; (2) all numerals in the mark are depicted in ...

Examination copy

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A copy of an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty maintained by the International Preliminary Examining Authority.

Home copy

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A copy of an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty maintained by the receiving Office where the international application was filed.