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Also see:
A
- Abandonment
- Absolute Novelty
- Abstract of the Disclosure
- Address for Service
- Affidavit
- Agent (patent)
- Aggregation
- Allowance
- Alpha Subclasses
- Amendment
- American Independent Inventor’s Act of 1999
- Annuity
- Anticipation
- Appeal (U.S.)
- Appeal Brief (U.S.)
- Appeal, Notice Of (U.S.)
- Appellant
- Applicant
- Application
- Application (Non-Provisional Utility Patent)
- Art (Prior)
- Assignee
- Assignment
- Assignor
- Attorney
B
- Background of the Invention
- Bar
- Best Mode
- Biological Material
- Board of Appeals (U.S.)
- Broad Claim
- Business Method Patent
C
- CAFTA
- Canceled Claim
- CIP (Continuation-in-Part)
- Certificate of Mailing
- Claim(s)
- Claim, Closed
- Claim, Dependent
- Claim, Generic
- Claim, Independent
- Claim, Jepson
- Claim, Markush
- Claim, Multiple Dependent
- Claim, Picture
- Claim, Process
- Claim, Product
- Claim, Species
- Classification
- Co-Inventor
- Commercialization
- Common Law Rights
- Community Patent Convention (CPC)
- Composed Of
- Comprising
- Concealment
- Conception
- Consisting Essentially of
- Consisting Of
- Continuation
- Contributory Infringement
- Convention (International)
- Cross Reference
- Customer Number
- Cyberlaw
D
- Deceased Inventor
- Declaration
- Defensive Publication
- Dependent Claim
- Design Patent
- Disclaimer
- Disclosure
- Disclosure Document
- Divisional Application
- Doctrine of Equivalents
- Double Patenting Rejection
- Drawing
E
- Effective Date
- Election (PCT)
- Electronic File Wrapper
- Element
- Embodiment
- Enablement
- Enforceability of Patent
- Ex Partes Reexamination (U.S.)
- Examination
- Examination Copy (International)
- Examiner
- Examiner’s Amendment
- Exclusive License
- Execute
- Expiry
- Express Abandonment
- “Express Mail” Mailing Label
F
- Field of Invention
- File Wrapper (U.S.)
- File Wrapper Continuing Application
- File Wrapper Estoppel
- Filing Date (U.S.)
- Filing Fees (U.S.)
- Final Rejection
- First to Invent
- Foreign Filing License
- Frivolous Invention
G
H
I
- Incorporation by Reference
- Independent Claim
- Industrial Property
- Industrial Property Law
- Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) (U.S.)
- Infringement
- Injunction
- Intellectual Property
- Interference (U.S.)
- International Application
- Inter Partes Reexamination
- Invention (U.S.)
- Invention Assessment
- Inventive Entity
- Inventor
- Issuance Fee
- Issue Date
J
K
- (None)
L
M
N
- National Stage Application (U.S.)
- Negative Limitation
- New Matter
- Non-Analogous Art
- Non-Confidential Agreement
- Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Non-Elected Invention
- Non-Exclusive License
- Non-Obvious
- Non-Provisional Patent Application
- Notice
- Notice Of Allowance
- Novelty
- Nullity
O
- Oath
- Objections
- Obviousness
- Office Action
- Omnibus Claim
- On Sale
- Open for Public Inspection (OPI)
- Ordinary Skill In The Art
P
- Parent Application
- Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
- Partial Views
- Patent
- Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL)
- Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
- Patent Application
- Patent Application Publication
- Patent Classification
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- Patent Disclosure
- Patent Drawing
- Patent Family
- Patent Infringement
- Patent Law
- Patent Number
- Patent Pending
- Patent Prior Art
- Patent Rules
- Patentable
- Patentability
- Patentability Search
- Patentee
- Pending Application
- Person
- Plant Patent
- Power of Attorney
- Prior Art
- Priority Date
- Priority Claim
- Product-by-Process Claim
- Pro Se
- Prosecution
- Prosecution History
- Prosecution History Estoppel
- Provisional Patent Application
- Provisional Patent Application Term
- Public Domain
- Public Knowledge
- Publication Number
- Publication of a Patent
Q
- (None)
R
- Reconsideration
- Record
- Reduction to Practice
- Reexamination
- Reexamination Proceeding
- Reference
- Registered Patent Agent
- Reissue
- Rejection
- Rejoinder
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE)
S
- Scope
- Search
- Search Copy
- Serial Number
- Skill in the Art
- Small Entity
- Specification
- Status
- Statutory Bar
- Statutory Disclaimer
- Statutory Invention Registration
- Statutory Period
- Statutory Subject Matter
- Submarine Patent
- Substitute Patent Application
T
- Tecnology Transfer
- Term of a Patent (U.S.)
- Terminal Disclaimer
- Termination Proceedings
- Trade Secret
- Trade Show
U
- Unavailable Inventor
- Unfair Competition
- Unity of Invention
- Useful Invention
- Utility
- Utility Patent
- Utility Patent Application Transmittal Form
V
W
X
- (None)
Y
- (None)
Z
- (None)
Abbreviations
- AGOA: African Growth and Opportunity Act.
- BPAI: Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
- CAFTA: Central American Free Trade Agreement.
- CAFC: Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
- CCPA: Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
- CFR: Code of Federal Regulations.
- Ct. Cl.: U.S. Court of Claims.
- DCDC: District Court for the District of Columbia.
- DO: Designated Office.
- DOE: U.S. Department of Energy.
- EFS: Electronic Filing System.
- EIC: Examiner in Chief.
- EP: European Patent.
- EPC: European Patent Convention.
- EPO: European Patent Organization.
- Fed. Cir.: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
- FOIA: Freedom of Information Act.
- FR: Federal Register.
- FTAA: Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
- FWA: File Wrapper Continuing Application.
- GATT: Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
- GPO: Government Printing Office.
- IA: International Application.
- IB: International Bureau (Geneva, Switzerland).
- INTA: International Trademark Owners Association.
- INPADOC: International Patent Documentation Center (Vienna, Austria, now part of the EPO).
- IP: Intellectual Property.
- IPE: International Preliminary Examination.
- ISA: International Search Authority.
- JPO: Japan Patent Office.
- JPTOS: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society.
- NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement.
- NDA: Non-Disclosure Agreement.
- NIPLECC: National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council.
- NOA: Notice of Allowance.
- WTO: World Trade Organization.