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any art or process (way of doing or making things), machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be patentable under the patent laws of the United States.
Industry:Legal services
A management methodology that combines ABC with business process analysis techniques to run, improve and measure performance for a business or organization.
Industry:Legal services
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.
Industry:Legal services
are applications to protect invented or discovered, asexually reproduced plant varieties.
Industry:Legal services
original copy of an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty maintained by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Industry:Legal services
at any time during the enforceability of a patent any person may file a request for the USPTO to conduct a second examination of any claim of the patent on the basis of prior art patents or printed publications which that person states to be pertinent and applicable to the patent and believes to have a bearing on the patentability (see 37 CFR 1.501). In order for the request for reexamination to be granted, a substantial new question of patentability must be present with regard to at least one patent claim. The request must be in writing and must be accompanied by payment of a reexamination request filing fee as set forth in 37 CFR 1.20(c).
Industry:Legal services
Pre-Grant Publication of patent application at 18 months from priority date
Industry:Legal services
claims under 35 USC 119(a)-(e) and 35 USC 120 for the benefit of the filing date of earlier filed applications.
Industry:Legal services
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.
Industry:Legal services
copy of an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty maintained by the International Searching Authority.
Industry:Legal services
