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A Microsoft Outlook global address list - directory of all Microsoft Exchange users and distribution lists to whom messages can be addressed. The administrator creates and maintains this list. The global address list may also contain public folder names. Entries from this list can be added to a users personal address book.
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Browse Related Terms: Directory, E-mail Message Store., Email Message Store, folder, Journaling, PAB, PST (Personal Folder File)

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A judicial debt-collection procedure whereby, at the suit of a creditor, the court orders a third person to hold, subject to the courts direction, money or property of the debtor in his or her possession.
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Browse Related Terms: current monthly income, Equity, Lien, net income, net worth, secured creditor, undersecured claim, unsecured creditor, workout

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A legal proceeding in which a debtor's money, in the possession of another (called the garnishee) is applied to the debts of the debtor, such as when an employer garnishes a debtor's wages.
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Browse Related Terms: Replevin, Taxable income, Withholding, Writ of garnishment

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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade signed by President Clinton on December 8, 1994. One resulting change is that a U.S. patent, if granted on an application filed on or after June 8, 1995, will have a term measured by 20 years from the filing date rather than the prior standard of 17 years from the date the patent was granted. Patents in force on June 8, 1995, and applications filed before that date will have a term that is the longer of these two terms. GATT also provided for provisional applications.
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Browse Related Terms: Best Mode, critical date, date of application, Effective Date, Expiry Date, filing date, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), life of a patent, Mode, Best, Substitute Specification

An agreement among industrialized nations that contains the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) provisions. To comply with TRIPs, Congress amended 35 U.S.C. 104 under which proof of date of invention in a foreign country is allowable if the country is a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) country for events after December 8, 1993, or a World Trade Organaization (WTO) country for events after January 1, 1996. MPEP 2138.02.
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Browse Related Terms: Best Mode, critical date, date of application, Effective Date, Expiry Date, filing date, GATT, life of a patent, Mode, Best, Substitute Specification

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Refers to courts that have no limit on the types of criminal and civil cases over which they may preside.
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Browse Related Terms: American Law Reports, Coram, Coram judice, Court of original jurisdiction, Diversity of citizenship, Extradition, federal question jurisdiction, jurisdiction, Jurisdiction, Personal, Jurisdiction, Subject Matter, Limited Jurisdiction

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terms that the relevant purchasing public understands primarily as the common or class name for the goods or services. These terms are incapable of functioning as trademarks denoting source, and are not registrable on the Principal Register under ï¿½2(f) or on the Supplemental Register. Examples include: CLASSES ONLINE for classes provided via the Internet, PIZZA.COM for pizza ordering and delivery services, and LIVE PLANTS for plant nurseries.

-- see TMEP for more info

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Browse Related Terms: Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual, classification of goods and services, IC, identification of goods and/or services, TLT

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On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
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Browse Related Terms: amendment, amendment in the nature of a substitute, "christmas tree" bill, clean bill, committee amendment, committee substitute, floor amendment, markup, nongermane amendment, relevant

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A German design patent. MPEP 201.14(b).
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Browse Related Terms: ADS, Brevet, design patent application, Gebraughsmuster, letters patent, Patentschrift

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See Bit Stream Back-up.
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Browse Related Terms: Bit, BPS, Chaff/winnowing, Decryption, encryption key

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Geographical Indications

-- see MORE

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Browse Related Terms: certification mark, collective mark, goods and services, Mark, service mark, sm, suggestive mark, trade dress, trademark

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General Information Concerning Patents
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Browse Related Terms: Biological Material, duty of disclosure, IDS, Incorporation by Reference, materials transfer agreement, prior-art statement

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A computer compression format for pictures.
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A computer compression format for pictures.
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Browse Related Terms: Data and Format Conversion, Data Formats, File Format, Format, HP-PCL & HPGL, Image File Format, ISO 9660 CD Format, Menu, Migrated Data, Migration, PST file format, Report

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A gigabyte is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is a billion (1,000,000,000) bytes.
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A gigabyte is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is a billion (1,000,000,000) bytes.
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Browse Related Terms: Byte, Data Element, Exabyte, Kilobyte (K), Kilobyte (Kb), Megabyte (Meg), Petabyte (PB), TB (Terabyte), Terabyte (TB)

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This may also be referred to as the "heart of the invention." It refers to what are the novel and unique features of the claimed invention.
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Browse Related Terms: Base Claim, Claim, Dependent, Claim, Independent, Claim, Multiple Dependent, dependent claim, independent claim, multiple dependent claim

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Identification of a file using Greenwich Mean Time as the central time authentication method.
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Browse Related Terms: Cryptography, GPS Generated Timestamp

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goods are products.

In the context of service marks, a service (1) must be a real activity; (2) must be performed to the order of, or for the benefit of, someone other than the applicant; and (3) the activity performed must be qualitatively different from anything necessarily done in connection with the sale of the applicant's goods or the performance of another service.

-- see TMEP 1301.01 "What is a service?" for more information on services

-- see classification of goods and services for more

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Browse Related Terms: certification mark, collective mark, GI, Mark, service mark, sm, suggestive mark, trade dress, trademark