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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Patent & trademark

Patentbusiness goals final rule

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Implement streamlined patent practice; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999

Record copy

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Original copy of an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty maintained by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Patent application publication

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Pre-Grant Publication of patent application at 18 months from priority date

Principal register

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Primary trademark register of the USPTO. When a mark has been registered on the Principal Register, the mark is entitled to all the rights provided by the Trademark Act.

Practitioner

Legal services; Patent & trademark

One who stands for or acts on behalf of another. A patent attorney or patent agent may represent the inventors named in a patent application.

Trademark document retrieval system (TDR)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Online retrieval of documents from the electronic case file for federal trademark applications and registrations. To access information about a specific mark, users must provide the associated serial ...