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United States Patent and Trademark Office
Industry: Legal services
Number of terms: 3815
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protect useful processes, machines, articles of manufacture, and compositions of matter.
Industry:Legal services
a position classification for USPTO employees charged with docketing cases and other administrative processing that support the workflow and examination of applications
Industry:Legal services
a reference work on the practices and procedures relative to prosecution of applications to register marks in the USPTO. It contains guidelines for USPTO examining attorneys, trademark applicants and owners, and attorneys and representatives for trademark applicants and owners. The TMEP contains information about the trademark examination process, and outlines the procedures which examining attorneys are required or authorized to follow in the examination of trademark applications.
Industry:Legal services
a registered patent attorney/agent is assigned a registration number that they must include on patent correspondence and forms when representing others before the USPTO; individual applicants do not have a registration number and should leave this field blank on patent forms.
Industry:Legal services
A request by the holder of an international trademark registration for an extension of protection of the registration to additional Contracting Parties.
Industry:Legal services
a request filed in an application in which prosecution is closed (e.g., the application is under final rejection or a notice of allowance) that is filed to reopen prosecution and continue examination of the application
Industry:Legal services
a self-addressed, stamped postcard with itemized list of parts of patent application and number of pages per MPEP 503; used as a receipt for what was submitted in an application
Industry:Legal services
a sworn document, filed by the owner of a registration, to avoid the expiration of a registration.
Industry:Legal services
a sworn statement signed by the applicant or a person authorized to sign on behalf of the applicant attesting to use of the mark in commerce. With a statement of use, the owner must submit: (1) a filing fee of $100 per class of goods/services; and (2) one specimen showing use of the mark in commerce for each class of goods/services.
Industry:Legal services
a system of administrative procedures and methods, combined with secure information technologies, that is used to manage secure electronic commerce. Provides for a means of securely identifying participants in electronic transactions as well as secure transmission and handling of data.
Industry:Legal services