Patent Law Glossary
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A
- Abandonment
- Abstract
- Access
- Admissions by inventor
- Allowed (or in issue)
- Alternative limitations
- Amended
- Amendments
- Another
- Anticipation
- Appeal
- Appeal brief
- Appellant
- Applicant
- Application
- Application data sheet
- Art
- Assignee
- Assignment
B
- Background of the invention
- Bar
- Best mode
- Biotechnology
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board)
- Brief summary of invention
- Broadening claims
C
- Certificate of correction
- Certificate of mailing
- Certificate of transmission
- Claims
- Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)
- Co-inventor
- Collateral estoppel
- Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
- Composition of matter
- Comprising
- Concealment
- Conception
- Continuation application (continuing)
- Continuation-in-part application (CIP)
- Continued prosecution application (CPA)
- Copending application
- Correcting inventorship
- Correspondence
- Count
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)
- Cover sheet
D
- Declaration
- Dependent claims
- Design patents
- Designation
- Detailed description of invention
- Disclaimer
- Disclosure
- Disclosure of utility
- Discovery
- Distinct inventions
- Divisional application
- Doctrine of equivalents
- Domination
- Double patenting
- Drawing
- Duty to disclose
E
- Election of species
- Enabling disclosure
- Essential material
- Estoppel
- Examination
- Examiner
- Ex parte
- Expedited examination
- Express abandonment
- Express mail
- Extension of due dates
F
- Facsimile
- Filing date
- Filing fee
- Final Office action
- First Office action
- First to file
- Foreign filing licenses
- Formal abandonment
- Functional descriptive material
G
H
I
- Incomplete application
- Independent
- Independent claims
- Independent inventions
- Information Disclosure Statement (IDS)
- Infringement action
- Inherency
- Intellectual property
- Interferences
- International applications
- International Bureau (IB)
- International Searching Authority (ISA)
- Interviews
- Invention
- Inventive entity
- Inventor
- Inventorship
- Inventor’s certificate
- Issue fee
J
L
M
- Machines
- Maintenance fees
- Maintenance fee reminder
- Manual of Patent Examination Procedure (MPEP)
- Manufacture
- Markush claim
- Means of step plus function
- Microorganisms as patentable subject matter
- Models
- Multiple assignees
- Multiple dependent claims
- Multiplicity
N
- National applications
- National stage
- Negative limitations
- New application
- New matter
- Non-elected invention
- Non-essential material
- Non-functional descriptive material
- Nonobviousness
- Nonprovisional application
- Nonstatutory
- Notice of Allowance
- Notice of Appeal
- Notice of Incomplete Application
- Notice of Missing Parts
- Notice of Omitted Items
- Novelty
O
- Oath
- Objection
- Obviousness
- Offer to Sell
- Office Action
- Official Gazette
- Omnibus Claims
- On Sale
- One-Year Rule
- Operability
- Oral Hearing
- Ownership
P
- Parent Application
- Patent
- Patent Agent
- Patent and Trademark Office
- Patent Application
- Patent Attorney
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- Patent Number
- Patent Pending
- Patent Term
- Patent Term Extension
- Patentable Subject Matter
- Patentee
- Period for Reply
- Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art
- Petition
- Petition to Make Special
- Photographs
- Plant Patent
- Power of Attorney
- Preamble
- Precautionary Designation
- Preliminary Amendment
- Prima Facie Obvious
- Printed Publication
- Prior Art
- Priority
- Pro Se
- Processes
- Product
- Product by Process
- Prosecution
- Protest
- Provisional Application
- Public Domain
- Public Use
- Publicly Accessible
R
- Receiving Office (RO)
- Recording Assignment
- Reduction to Practice
- Reexamination
- Reference
- Refunds
- Registered Patent Practitioner
- Reissue
- Rejection
- Reply Brief
- Request for Continuing Examination (RCE)
- Request for Reconsideration
- Requirement for Information
- Res Judicata
- Restriction
- Right of Priority of an Application
S
- Sale
- Search
- Secondary Considerations
- Secrecy Order
- Security Review
- Sequence Rules
- Serial Number
- Servicing the Applicant
- Signatures
- Simultaneous Inventions
- Single Means Claim
- Skill in the Art
- Small Entity
- Specification
- Specimens
- Status
- Statutory Process
- Statutory Bar
- Statutory Invention Registration (SIR)
- Statutory Subject Matter
- Substantial New Question of Patentability
- Substitute Application
- Substitute Specification
- Summary of Interview
- Summary of Invention
- Supplemental Oath or Declaration
- Suppression
- Swearing Back
T
- Technology Transfer
- Term Extension
- Term of Patent
- Term of Disclaimer
- Therapeutic Utilities
- Title
- Trademark
- Transitional Phrases
- Traverse
- Tuber Propogated Plants
U
- Undue Experimentation
- Unavoidable Delay
- Unintentional Delay
- United States Code (U.S.C.)
- Unity of Invention
- Utility
- Utility Patent
V
W