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A secondary test of patentability relevant to the issue of whether an invention is obvious is whether others have failed to come up with the solution previously. Another way of expressing this concept is the existence of a long-standing and unsolved problem that tends to lend weight to patentability.
- Browse Related Terms: Double Patenting Rejection, DoublePatenting, failure of others, Intervening Rights, obvious to try, patentability search
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-- see patent family
- Browse Related Terms: appeal (patent), BPAI, BPAIIS, family (patent), GICP, infringement, ITU, letters patent, Patent Family, PTDL, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, TTAB
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comprise terms that have been invented for the sole purpose of functioning as a trademark or service mark. Such marks comprise words that are either unknown in the language (e.g., PEPSI, KODAK, EXXON) or are completely out of common usage (e.g., FLIVVER).
- Browse Related Terms: arbitrary marks, certification mark, collective mark, CSR, DNS, fanciful marks, FAS, fee, FQA, goods and services, mere descriptiveness, service mark, SM, suggestive mark, trade dress, trademark, TTY, WINS
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- Browse Related Terms: applicant, coinventor, deceased inventor, FAQ, interference, joint application, joint inventor, nonprofit organization, person, pro se, small business concern, Small Entity
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Foreign Agricultural Service
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Fastener Quality Act (15 U.S.C. 5401 et seq., as amended by Public Law 104-113, Public Law 105-234, and Public Law 106-34); implementing regulations: 15 C.F.R. Part 280
Purpose: Protects against the sale of mismarked, misrepresented, and counterfeit fasteners.
-- see Fastener Quality Act for more
- Browse Related Terms: AIPA, DID, Fastener Quality Act, patentable, PBG, PBG Final Rule, USPTO
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Final Data Capture Once the fee, any correspondence, and/or drawings are matched with the application and all requirements have been met for issuance as a patent, the application is then forwarded to the Final Data Capture (FDC) stage of the process . An "Issue Notification" would be the next step in the processing of a patent and is mailed approximately 3 weeks prior to the issue date of the patent.
- Browse Related Terms: blackout period, FDC, IDC, issue date, NOA, notice of allowability, notice of allowance, notice of allowance and fees due, notice of publication, publication for opposition, RCE, withdrawn patent
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See Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC or Fed. Cir.).
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The regulations of the departments and agencies of the U.S. Federal Government as published in the Code of Federal Regulations.
- Browse Related Terms: Application Series, Basic Patent, CFR, Federal Regulations, Official Gazette, One-Year Grace Period, Patent Family, Patent Watch, Published Application, Published Patent Application, United States Patent and Trademark Office Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
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an amount of money charged for a particular service or product supplied by the USPTO.
-- see How to Pay Fees
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The fee charged by a patent office for filing a patent application. MPEP 607, MPEP 509.
- Browse Related Terms: Annuity, Fee, Filing, Fee, Issue, Fee, Maintenance, Fee, Petition, Filing Fee, Forfeited Application, Issue Fee, Lapse Date, maintenance, Maintenance Fee, maintenance fees, Renewal Fee, Small Entity
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The fee charged by a patent office for issuing (granting) a patent. MPEP 1306, MPEP 509.
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The periodic fee charge by the U.S. patent office for maintaining a patent in force. MPEP 2501, MPEP 2504, MPEP 509.
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The fee charged by a patent office for reveiwing a petition filed by an applicant. MPEP 1002.
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The area of technology that an inventor invents within. Also called technical field or field of the invention. MPEP 608.01(c).
- Browse Related Terms: Background of the Invention, crowded art, Examining Group, Field of Endeavor, Field of the Invention, invention, Knowledge-based Expert System, long-felt need, Patent Search, Pioneer Invention, Pioneer Patent, Technical Field, Title of Invention, utility patent