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Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval system -- see TARR
USPTO's online database for monitoring federal trademark applications and registrations. Using TARR, applicants, trademark owners and the public may check the status of pending trademark applications and registrations. To access information about a specific mark, users must provide the associated serial number or registration number of the record they seek.
- Browse Related Terms: Assignee, assignment, assignor, change of name, deposit account, OPR, PRD, recordation form cover sheet, TARR, TDR, Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval
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-- see terminal disclaimer
- Browse Related Terms: declaration, excusable nonuse, incontestability, information disclosure statement (IDS), mask work, Oath, SB, Section 15 Declaration of Incontestability, statutory disclaimer, TD, Terminal Disclaimer
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Trademark Document Retrieval system -- see TDR
Online retrieval of documents from the electronic case file for federal trademark applications and registrations. To access information about a specific mark, users must provide the associated serial number,registration number, reference number, or international registration number of the record they seek.
- Browse Related Terms: Assignee, assignment, assignor, change of name, deposit account, OPR, PRD, recordation form cover sheet, TARR, TDR, Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval
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To inform and instruct by way of the documents making up the prior art. The prior art references teach the technology disclosed in them or revealed by them.
- Browse Related Terms: Anticipation, combining prior art, Effective date, Novelty, Opinion, Patentability, prior art, prior art (reference), reference, Search Report, Swearing Back of Reference, teach, teach toward - teach away, Teaching Away
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A prior-art reference that suggests or points in the direction of the present invention is said to teach toward the invention and is evidence that the invention is obvious. A prior-art reference that diverges and points in a technical direction away from the present invention is evidence that the invention is unobvious. Prior art must be looked at in its entirety.
- Browse Related Terms: Anticipation, combining prior art, Effective date, Novelty, Opinion, Patentability, prior art, prior art (reference), reference, Search Report, Swearing Back of Reference, teach, teach toward - teach away, Teaching Away
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The situation in which a prior art reference suggests that a claimed invention is not possible, e.g., would not work. MPEP 2145.
- Browse Related Terms: Anticipation, combining prior art, Effective date, Novelty, Opinion, Patentability, prior art, prior art (reference), reference, Search Report, Swearing Back of Reference, teach, teach toward - teach away, Teaching Away
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Trademark Electronic Application System -- see TEAS
USPTO's electronic filing system. It may be used to file a variety of documents with the USPTO, including new trademark applications, amendments to allege use, statements of use, responses to Office actions, and changes of address, just to name a few.
- Browse Related Terms: CD, Doc, e-Commerce, e-Gov, EBC, eComm, eDAN, EFP, EFS, EFS-ABX, EFS-Web, EFT, electronic file wrapper, ePAS, ESTTA, eTAS, eTEAS, FOIA, IFW, MiTEAS, notice of references cited, OBI, OEIP, Pair, PrinTEAS, SAFE, TEAS, Trademark Electronic Application System
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The field of art to which the invention pertains. 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
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(or TC, also referred to as a Group) - a unit of several Group Art Units in the mechanical, electrical, chemical or design area, managed by one or more Group Directors. Formerly referred to as Groups.
- Browse Related Terms: classification, classification of goods and services, combination patent, copyrights, CRU, GAU, Group Art Unit, IC, inventor, Office, Patent, patent infringement, RE, SIRA, Technology Center, US, USC, USPS, X patent
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The process by which patentable intellectual property is made marketable and is licensed or otherwise disposed for use by the pubic.
- Browse Related Terms: assignment, bailment, Cross License, due diligence terms, exclusive license, Field of Use, field of use license, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), ipr hygiene, license, licensee, licensor, Misuse, Patent Owner, Property, technology licensing, Technology Manager, WIPO, Worked or Working
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The person in a public-sector or private-sector organization who is responsible for managing the intellectual property of the organization. Various titles are used for the position, including Technology-Transfer Officer, Licensing Associate, etc. The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) has over 1,200 members. Another such organization, the Licensing Executives Society (LES), has over 6,000 members worldwide.
- Browse Related Terms: assignment, bailment, Cross License, due diligence terms, exclusive license, Field of Use, field of use license, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), ipr hygiene, license, licensee, licensor, Misuse, Patent Owner, Property, technology licensing, Technology Manager, WIPO, Worked or Working
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The period during which a patent can be inforced. MPEP 2501.
- 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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also "TD": a statement filed by an owner under 35 USC § 253 (paragraph 2) and 37 CFR § 1.321(b) or (c) to disclaim or dedicate to the public the entire term or any portion of the term of a patent or patent to be granted. A TD may be filed for the purpose of overcoming a judicailly created double patenting rejection.
-- see MPEP 1490 and 37 CFR § 1.321 for more
- Browse Related Terms: declaration, excusable nonuse, incontestability, information disclosure statement (IDS), mask work, Oath, SB, Section 15 Declaration of Incontestability, statutory disclaimer, TD, Terminal Disclaimer
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Where an obviousness-type double patenting rejection has occurred, an applicant may file a document indicating that the term of the second patent will end upon expiration of the first patent to issue.
A document filed with the USPTO by an applicant, assignee or patent attorney or agent wherein a terminal portion of the normal term of the patent is given up. MPEP 1490.
- Browse Related Terms: Assignee, assignor, date of application, dedication to the public, Depositing Correspondence, Disclosure Document Program, File History, File Wrapper, Filing Date, issue date, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP), patent application, serial number, Terminal Disclaimer
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Trademark Electronic Search System -- see TESS
USPTO's online database for searching pending, registered and dead federal trademarks. TESS is free and intended for use by the general public. Due to limitations of equipment and bandwidth, TESS is not intended to be a source for bulk downloads of USPTO data. Bulk data may be purchased from USPTO at cost (see the USPTO Products and Services Catalog). Individuals, companies, IP addresses, or blocks of IP addresses who, in effect, deny service to the general public by generating unusually high numbers of daily TESS accesses (searches, pages, or hits), whether generated manually or in an automated fashion, may be denied access to these servers without notice.- 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 rule stating the equivalence between two tests under patent law (i.e., the test of infringement of a patent and the test of anticipation in the prior art to invalidate a patent). If the claim of a patent is literally infringed by a prior art reference, then the claim is anticipated by that prior art reference and, therefore, is unpatentable. Note that there cannot be anticipation of a claim by equivalents.
- 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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a lossless, archival image file format - a type using G4 compression is used for patent images
-- choose a TIFF viewer from list of all available plug-ins
- Browse Related Terms: Annex F, DTD, forms, jpg, kind codes, PDF, PPS, PPT, pto, TICRS, TIFF, word mark
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