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United States Patent and Trademark Office
Industry: Legal services
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an application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Industry:Legal services
also known as a PTO-892 form. A list of relevant references cited by a patent examiner in an Office action. The following are some examples of such references: domestic patents, domestic patent application publications, foreign patents or patent publications, publications, electronic documents, and affidavits.
Industry:Legal services
also known as a TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf)
Industry:Legal services
protect words, names, symbols, sounds, or colors that distinguish goods and services from those manufactured or sold by others and to indicate the source of the goods. Trademarks, unlike patents, can be renewed forever as long as they are being used in commerce.
Industry:Legal services
provide rules concerning matters expressly refers to in the Patent Cooperation Treaty, any administrative requirements, matters, or procedures, and concerning any details useful in the implementation of the provisions of the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The rules must be adopted by the Assembly of WIPO.
Industry:Legal services
provides a mechanism by which an applicant can file a single application that, when certain requirements have been fulfilled, is equivalent to a regular national filing in each designated Contracting State. There are currently over 112 PCT Contracting States.
Industry:Legal services
regular 18-month publication or redacted publication.
Industry:Legal services
suitable to be patented; entitled by law to be protected by the issuance of a patent.
Industry:Legal services
suspends the action on an application. An application may be suspended for a variety of reasons. These include waiting for the disposition of a cited prior pending application to be determined or waiting for an assignment of ownership to be recorded. Applicants do not need to respond to suspension letters.
Industry:Legal services
term no longer in use
Industry:Legal services