Intellectual Property terms starting with P

128 terms

  1. profits Direct recovery of the patent infringer's profits is not possible in a case of infringement of a utility patent, but may, under proper circumstances, be…
  2. Prolix Claim A claim that contains long recitations or unimportant details that render the claim indefinite. MPEP 2173.05(m).
  3. property For this survey, property means real estate; that is, land and anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings and those things attached to…
  4. proprietary information Information that is not generally known and that has competitive value, e.g., trade secrets and business information not generally known.
  5. prosecution The process of fact finding and negotiation of patent claim language that occurs during the time that a patent application is pending and under…
  6. Prosecution History The history of the prosecution of a patent application. See Prosecution.
  7. prosecution history estoppel the other side of the coin from doctrine of equivalence; in patent infringement lawsuits, it tends to favor the accused infringer.
  8. Protest A communication by a member of the public to a patent office arguing and providing evidence that the granting of a patent would be improper. MPEP 1901.
  9. Provisional Application A type of U.S. utility patent application that is used to establish priority of invention. It need not contain a claim and cannot issue as a patent.
  10. provisional patent application a provisional application for patent is a U. S. national application for patent filed in the USPTO under 35 U.S.C. § 111(b).
  11. pseudo mark A way of locating a word mark that is comprised of an alternative or intentionally corrupted spelling of an English word.
  12. PSIPS Publication Site for Issued and Published Sequences -- also see bio-sequence listings
  13. PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
  14. PTA Patent Term Adjustment -- see MPEP 2700 for more -- see PTA Calculation for more
  15. PTDL Patent and Trademark Depository Library -- see PTDL program
  16. PTE Patent Term Extension -- see MPEP 2700 for more -- see PTE Calculation for more
  17. PTO Patent and Trademark Office, former designation for USPTO also a type of form designation for forms generated by the USPTO (as in PTO-892)
  18. PTO (Patent and Trademark Office) the government agency, located in Arlington, Virginia, that is responsible for issuing patents.
  19. PTOL a type of form designation such as Form PTOL, meaning a Patent and Trademark Office Legal form
  20. PTOS Patent and Trademark Office Society
  21. Public Sale A sale or offer to sell an invention to a member of the public. A sale need not be public to bar a patent under U.S. law. MPEP 2133.03, MPEP 2133.03(b).
  22. Public Use Utilization of a completed invention in a nonexperimental manner in public, i.e.
  23. publication Any document that is available to the public anywhere in the world. MPEP 2128, MPEP 2128.01, MPEP 2128.02.
  24. publication for opposition If the examining attorney raises no objections to registration, or if the applicant overcomes all objections, the examining attorney will approve the mark…
  25. publication number a number assigned to the publication of patent applications filed on or after November 29, 2000.
  26. Published Application A patent application that has been published by a patent office during its prosection (before issue).
  27. Published Patent Application See Published Application.
  28. Pubs Patent Publication, Office of -- see Patent Publication for more