Intellectual Property terms starting with M

26 terms

  1. Machine A device, a product, a physical thing. Under U.S. law, one of the statutory classes of inventions.MPEP 2105, MPEP 2106, MPEP 2114.
  2. Madrid Protocol The "Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks" (Madrid Protocol) is an international treaty that…
  3. maintenance The patent fees due at 4, 8 and 12 years needed to keep a U. S. utility or plant patent in force for its full life.
  4. Maintenance Fee See Fee, Maintenance.
  5. maintenance fees fees for maintaining in force a patent based on an application filed on or after December 12, 1980 --see MPEP 2500 for more
  6. Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) A document that contains a description of the practices and procedures of the USPTO.
  7. Manufacture One of the classes of patentable subject matter under U.S. law. MPEP 2105.
  8. Mark -- see trademark
  9. Markush Claim See Claim, Markush.
  10. Markush doctrine When materials recited in a claim are so related as to constitute claiming the members of the claimed group in the alternative, such as "selected from the…
  11. Markush Group In a claim, a finite group from which an element is selected. See Claim, Markush.
  12. MARS Machine Assisted Reference Section
  13. mask work images that are used to create the layers of a semiconductor chip product -- see MPEP Appendix R §150.1 (d) for more
  14. materials transfer agreement An agreement that provides the understanding that the materials are made available only for scientific work.
  15. Means for Claim A patent claim that recites an element as a means for accomplishing a particular function. MPEP 2181.
  16. Means Plus Function Language See Means for Claim.
  17. Means-Plus-Function Claim See Means for Claim.
  18. mere descriptiveness statutory basis (Trademark Act Section 2(e)(1), 15 U.S.C. Section 1052(e)(1), TMEP 1209 et seq) for refusing registration of trademarks and service marks…
  19. metes and bounds The legal description of the exact property which is covered by a patent (the Claims).
  20. method the course of action or technique followed in conducting a specific analysis or comparison leading to an analytical result.
  21. Misuse Using a patent right inappropriately, for example, for forcing a license to purchase a prodict that is not covered by the claims of the patent.
  22. MiTEAS Madrid International Trademark Electronic Application Submission
  23. Mode, Best See Best Mode.
  24. model See Exhibit.
  25. MPEP Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
  26. Multiple Dependent Claim a dependent claim which further limits and refers back in the alternative to more than one preceding independent or dependent claim.