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American Bankers Association number - often referred to as the "transit routing number", is the nine (9) digit electronic address of a financial institution. The ABA number is encoded in the MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) line of all checks, and is assigned to each financial institution and each branch office of that financial institution.
- Browse Related Terms: ABA #, ABC, C&A, CEAR, CFS, FASAB, PAR, SFFAC, SFFAS, statement of net cost
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A trademark application that has been declared abandoned is "dead" and no longer pending. Abandonment occurs under several circumstances. The most common reason is when the USPTO does not receive a response to an Office Action letter from an applicant within 6 months from the date the Office action letter was mailed. Another instance is when the USPTO does not receive a Statement of Use (or request for an extension of time to file a statement of use) from an applicant within 6 months from the issuance of a Notice of Allowance). Applications abandoned for failure to respond to an Office Action or a Notice of Allowance can be revived or reinstated in certain circumstances. For more information, see Petition to Revive and Request for Reinstatement.
- Browse Related Terms: abandonment, ADS, counterpart, dead, express abandonment, filing receipt, informal application, notice of abandonment, petition to revive an application (trademark matters), request to reinstate an application
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An actual or implied giving up of an application or invention by some positive act or failure to act within a reasonable or statutorily fixed time.
- Browse Related Terms: abandonment, Abandonment of Invention, Advisory Action, Amendment, Cancellation of Claims, Disposal, Final Action, Official Action, Preliminary Amendment, prosecution, Quayle Action, Rejection, Rejection, Final
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To relinguish rights in an invention. In the U.S., an invention is considered to be abandoned, if within a reasonable time after the invention is completed, no actions are taken to make the invention publicly known. MPEP 2134, MPEP 2138.03.
- Browse Related Terms: abandonment, Abandonment of Invention, Advisory Action, Amendment, Cancellation of Claims, Disposal, Final Action, Official Action, Preliminary Amendment, prosecution, Quayle Action, Rejection, Rejection, Final
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To relinquish, either by express abandonment or by inaction, a patent application. Abandonment by inaction typically involves failure to take a required action (e.g., filing a incomplete response or not paying a fee) during the statutory period for taking the action. A U.S. patent application that was unavoidably or unintentionally abandoned, can be revived by petition. MPEP 711.
- Browse Related Terms: Abandonment of Patent Application, Allowance, Allowance, Notice of, Extension of Time, Notice of Allowance and Issue Fee Due, Petition for Extension of Time, Petition to Revive, Revival of Abandoned Application, Term of Patent
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activity based cost accounting - an accrual-based accounting method for determining unit-based costs of delivering services by allocating the costs to budgetary resources; it measures the performance and costs related to a specific activity or function.
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activity based management - a management methodology that combines ABC with business process analysis techniques to run, improve and measure performance for a business or organization.
- Browse Related Terms: ABM, APMS, BIA, CPIC, FFMIA, FISMA, FMFIA, OBRA, OMB, OPM, PKI, PMA, PMO, RAM, SDM
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A requirement of some patent offices (but not the USPTO) that public disclosure or sale of an invention anywhere in the world cannot occur prior to the filing of a valid patent application.
- Browse Related Terms: Absolute Novelty, critical date, Defensive Publication, Figure Legend, Open for Public Inspection, Printed Matter, publication, SIR, Statutory Invention Registration (SIR)
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Automated Biotechnology Sequence Search
See PSIPS to access sequence searching online
- Browse Related Terms: ABSS, bio-sequence listings, boolean, Design Search Code Manual, ISR, Patent and Trademark Depository Library, pseudo mark, PSIPS, search, sequence listing, TESS, Trademark Electronic Search System
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A concise statement of the technical disclosure including that which is new in the art to which the invention pertains
-- see MPEP 608.01(b) for more
- Browse Related Terms: abstract of the disclosure, Disclosure, embodiment, petitions (patent matters), postcard receipt, prior art (reference), PTA, PTE, reference (prior art), specification, SSP
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A short description of the novel features of an invention. MPEP 608.01(b).
- Browse Related Terms: abstract of the disclosure, Base Claim, Claim, Dependent, Claim, Independent, Claim, Multiple Dependent, Dependent Claim, Element of Claim, Example, Exhibit, gist of the invention, Independent Claim, multiple dependent claim, Negative Claim Limitation, Object of the Invention
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This manual lists numerous examples of identifications of goods and services that are acceptable to the USPTO for inclusion in trademark applications and registrations. The manual is not exhaustive and is meant as a guide to aid applicants and their attorneys in formulating acceptable identifications of goods and/or services.
Use Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual online
- Browse Related Terms: Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual, application (trademark), conflicting marks, COTS, descriptive mark, Drawing, generic term, identification of goods and/or services, IP, IPA, likelihood of confusion, Principal Register, registration, standard character format, stylized mark, substantive reasons for refusal, supplemental register, typed mark
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An official communication from a patent office, ususally requiring some response by the applicant. MPEP 707.
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One may be held liable for patent infringement as a result of actively encouraging another to infringe if such other does infringe, even though the inducer has not made, used, sold, offered for sale, or imported the patented invention.
- Browse Related Terms: active inducement to infringe, claim(s), Colorable Deviation, Comprising, contributory infringement, copying, Direct Infringement, doctrine of equivalence, doctrine of equivalents, equivalents - reverse doctrine of, Infrastructure, Infringed Literally, infringement, Infringement By Equivalents, Infringement Under Doctrine of Equivalents, Literal Infringement, notice (also marking), Product By Process Claim, prosecution history estoppel, search, that which infringes if later, anticipates if earlier
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set out the provisions and requirements in relation to the filing and processing of the international (patent) application under the PCT and are established by the Director General of WIPO
- Browse Related Terms: Administrative Instructions, ATO, Chapter I, Chapter II, designation, election (PCT), examination copy, home copy, national stage application, PCT, PCT Regulations, PLT, POIS, Power, precautionary designation, record copy, search copy, TLT, WCT, WPPT
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A statement by an applicant for patent that can or is used to deny the patentability of an invention, in some cases regardless of whether the statement is true. MPEP 2129.
- Browse Related Terms: Admissions by Applicant, Affidavit, declaration, Deposition, Execute, Oath, Preliminary Statement, Verified Statement/Showing
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- Browse Related Terms: abandonment, ADS, counterpart, dead, express abandonment, filing receipt, informal application, notice of abandonment, petition to revive an application (trademark matters), request to reinstate an application
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An action advising an applicant of the status of an application, typically advising him/her that the amendment filed just prior to the mailing of the advisory action does not place the applkication in condition for allowance of the claims. See Action. MPEP 714.13.
- Browse Related Terms: abandonment, Abandonment of Invention, Advisory Action, Amendment, Cancellation of Claims, Disposal, Final Action, Official Action, Preliminary Amendment, prosecution, Quayle Action, Rejection, Rejection, Final
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A written, sworn statement that includes facts in support of the patentability of an invention. Under U.S. rules, an affidavit or declaration under 37 CFR 1.131 is used to "swearing behind" a reference and an affidavit or declaration under 37 CFR 1.132 is used in traversing a rejection. See Declaration. MPEP 715, MPEP 716.
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(may be referred to as a practitioner or representative) - one who is not an attorney but is authorized to act for or in place of the applicant(s) before the Office, that is, an individual who is registered to practice before the Office.
-- See 37 CFR § 10.6 and the searchable online Patent Attorney Agent Roster
- Browse Related Terms: agent (patent), attorney, customer number, disclosure document, domestic representative, lawyer, non-lawyer, POA, practitioner, registration number, representative
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A ground for rejection of a patent claim that is based on a lack of cooperation among the elements of an invention. MPEP 2173.05(k).
- Browse Related Terms: aggregation, equivalents - means-plus-function claims, Indefinite Claim, Inherency, inventive entity, Means for Claim, Negative Limitation, Prolix Claim
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