Intellectual Property terms starting with U

25 terms

  1. UDRP Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
  2. UEA USPTO Enterprise Architecture
  3. UML Unified Modeling Language
  4. Undue Experimentation An amount of experimentation required to practice a disclosed invention that would be unreasonable. MPEP 2164.01, MPEP 818.03(c).
  5. Unenforceable A determonation by a court that a patent cannot be enforced against a party that would otherwise be infringing its claims, because the patent is defective.
  6. United States Code The laws of the U.S.
  7. United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) The agency of the U.S. Federal Government responsible for administering the country's patent system.
  8. United States Patent and Trademark Office Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) The regulations promulgated by the USPTO.
  9. university research All research conducted in the course of an inventor's employment with the University (including, but not limited to, the performance of a grant, contract…
  10. Unobvious The state of a claimed invention's not being obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the invention pertains. Also called non-obvious.
  11. unpatentable Descriptive of an invention not involving sufficient departure from what was known before in the art or that for some other reason is not the proper…
  12. Unreasonable Experimentation See Undue Experimentation.
  13. UPR Utility, Plant, and Reissue -- see patent for more
  14. US United States
  15. USC United States Code -- see MORE INFO
  16. use in commerce For the purpose of obtaining federal registration, "commerce" means all commerce that the U.S.
  17. use-based application There are 4 filing bases on which an application may be based. One filing basis is use of the mark in commerce (the other three are filing based on an…
  18. Useful Having some practical utility; fit for some desirable practical or commercial purpose. One of the three requirements for patentability under U.S. law.
  19. USPS United States Postal Service
  20. USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office, designation became effective April 3, 2000; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
  21. USTR United States Trade Representative -- see International Intellectual Property for more
  22. Utility See Useful.
  23. Utility Model A type of patent available in some countries that requires less inventiveness than necessary to obtain a patent.
  24. Utility Patent may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new, useful, and nonobvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or…
  25. utility patent application protect useful processes, machines, articles of manufacture, and compositions of matter. -- see also application (patent)