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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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Patent number
Legal services; Patent & trademark
Unique number assigned to a patent application when it issues as a patent -- see list
Common inventor
Legal services; Patent & trademark
An inventor whose name is listed on multiple patent applications or granted patents, making the inventions at least partially the work of the same person.
Final office action (rejection)
Legal services; Patent & trademark
An Office action on the second or any subsequent examination or consideration by an examiner that is intended to close the prosecution of a nonprovisional patent application.
Declaration of continueuse
Legal services; Patent & trademark
A sworn statement, filed by the owner of a registration that the mark is in use in commerce.
Cancelled
Legal services; Patent & trademark
Trademark registration is no longer active. It may be due to the registrant's failure to file the required continued use affidavit under Section 8 of the Trademark Act, to a cancellation proceeding ...
Declaration of excusablenonuse
Legal services; Patent & trademark
A sworn statement, filed by the owner of a registration, that the mark is not in use in commerce due to special circumstances that excuse such nonuse and is not due to any intention to abandon the ...
Assignor
Legal services; Patent & trademark
The owner of record of a patent application, patent, trademark application or trademark registration who is transferring (assigning) ownership to another entity (assignee)
