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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Small business concern

Legal services; Patent & trademark

For purposes of small entity determination per MPEP 509.02 - any business concern meeting the size standards set forth in 13 CFR Part 121 to be eligible for reduced patent fees. Questions related to ...

Examining attorney

Legal services; Patent & trademark

A USPTO employee who examines (reviews and determines compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements of) an application for registration of a federally registered trademark

Appeal (trademark)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An applicant who wants to contest a final refusal from an examining attorney may file an appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. An appeal is taken by filing a Notice of Appeal and paying the ...

Continuation-in-part (CIP)

Legal services; Patent & trademark

An application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the earlier nonprovisional application and adding matter not disclosed ...

Issue date

Legal services; Patent & trademark

The date that a patent application becomes a US patent. The issue date is the date that patent rights can be exercised. U.S. patents are always issued on Tuesdays.

Utility patent application

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Protect useful processes, machines, articles of manufacture, and compositions of matter.

Trademark

Legal services; Patent & trademark

Protect words, names, symbols, sounds, or colours that distinguish goods and services from those manufactured or sold by others and to indicate the source of the goods. Trademarks, unlike patents, ...