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A requirement of some patent offices (but not the USPTO) that public disclosure or sale of an invention anywhere in the world cannot occur prior to the filing of a valid patent application.
- Browse Related Terms: Absolute Novelty, critical date, Defensive Publication, Figure Legend, Open for Public Inspection, Printed Matter, publication, SIR, Statutory Invention Registration (SIR)
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Requirement that a certain class of creditors be satisfied before payment to another class of creditors.
- Browse Related Terms: absolute priority rule, acceleration clause, adequate protection, assets, claim, current monthly income, dividend, involuntary filing, voluntary filing, workout
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Automated Biotechnology Sequence Search
See PSIPS to access sequence searching online
- 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 concise statement of the technical disclosure including that which is new in the art to which the invention pertains
-- see MPEP 608.01(b) for more
- Browse Related Terms: abstract of the disclosure, Disclosure, embodiment, petitions (patent matters), postcard receipt, prior art (reference), PTA, PTE, reference (prior art), specification, SSP
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A short description of the novel features of an invention. MPEP 608.01(b).
- Browse Related Terms: abstract of the disclosure, Base Claim, Claim, Dependent, Claim, Independent, Claim, Multiple Dependent, Dependent Claim, Element of Claim, Example, Exhibit, gist of the invention, Independent Claim, multiple dependent claim, Negative Claim Limitation, Object of the Invention
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A chronological summary of all official records and recorded documents affecting the title to a parcel of real property.
- Browse Related Terms: Abstract of title, Condemnation, Esquire, In loco parentis, Joint tenancy, Proprietor, Quiet title action, Restitution, survivorship, Title, Vacantia bona
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An appellate court uses this standard of review where a party may argue that a lower court’s decision was greatly unsound, unreasonable, or illegal.
- Browse Related Terms: Abuse of Discretion, Affirm, Appellant’s Brief, De novo, opinion, Oral argument, Remand, Respondent, Respondent’s Brief, Reverse, Standard of Review
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Formal nomenclature for user actions not in accordance with organizational policy or law. Actions falling outside, or explicitly proscribed by, acceptable use policy.
- Browse Related Terms: 30(b)(6), Abuse of Privilege, Admissible, Algorithm, Daubert (challenge), Discovery, Fed. R. Civ P, FIPS, FRCP, FRCP or Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, import, Investigation, Rule 16
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an agent, often an ignitable liquid, that acts to initiate a fire or increase its rate of spread.
- Browse Related Terms: Accelerant, Asphyxiation, Back spatter, Bloodstain, Cerebral edema, Contact wound, Spatter, Stippling, Subarachnoid hemorrhage, Subdural hematoma
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A clause in a promissory note allowing the creditor to declare the entire balance due upon default.
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This manual lists numerous examples of identifications of goods and services that are acceptable to the USPTO for inclusion in trademark applications and registrations. The manual is not exhaustive and is meant as a guide to aid applicants and their attorneys in formulating acceptable identifications of goods and/or services.
Use Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual online
- Browse Related Terms: Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual, application (trademark), conflicting marks, COTS, descriptive mark, Drawing, generic term, identification of goods and/or services, IP, IPA, likelihood of confusion, Principal Register, registration, standard character format, stylized mark, substantive reasons for refusal, supplemental register, typed mark
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The taking and receiving of anything with the intention of retaining it.
- Browse Related Terms: acceptance, Animo, Animo et facto, Malo animo
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Acceptance of service is an agreement by a defendant (or his/her attorney) in a legal action to accept a complaint or other petition (like divorce papers) without having the sheriff or process server show up at the door.
- Browse Related Terms: Acceptance of service, Affidavit, Agreement, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) (ADR), answer, Certificate of service, Decree, Default, Deposition, Discovery, Interrogatories, Service, Stipulation
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1. A partner in a crime. 2. A person who knowingly and voluntarily participates with another in a criminal activity.
- Browse Related Terms: Accomplice, Aid and Abet, Assumption of risk, Comparative negligence, Consecutive sentences, Double jeopardy, Due process of law, entrapment, Equal Protection of the Law, Negligence, Proximate cause, Reasonable person, Tort
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The principle that individuals using a facility or a computer system must be identifiable. With accountability, violations or attempted violations of system security can be traced to individuals who can then be held responsible.
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the quality of subordinate workers being responsible for his/her own work and answerable to a superior.
- Browse Related Terms: Accountability, Analytical Procedure, Control, Drift, Analytical, Duty, Goal, Good Laboratory Practice, Principle, procedure, Process Development, Quality Assessment, Quality Assurance, Quality Audit, Quality Control, Quality Manager, Quality System, Standard, Validation
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Department of Defense parlance for the notion that information has been maintained and transferred in such a way as to be inviolate (the information has been protected from being modified or otherwise corrupted either maliciously or accidentally). Accuracy protects against forgery or tampering.
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the degree of conformity of a measured quantity to its actual (true) value.
- Browse Related Terms: Accuracy, Base pair, chromatography, electrophoresis, Error Rate, gel, Genetics, Mass spectrometers, Mass spectrometry, Probability, Root Cause Analysis, Solvents, Testable, Tomography
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A safety film (ANSI Standard) substrate used to produce microfilm.
- Browse Related Terms: Acetate-base film, CCITT, Character Treatment, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), ISA, ISO, ISO 9660 CD Format, NIST, SGML/HyTime
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a colorless, highly flammable chemical compound used as an organic solvent, an ingredient in many lacquer thinner compounds and adhering liquids.
- Browse Related Terms: Acetone, biology, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), Gas chromatography, histology, Objective, policy, tissue
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1. A formal declaration before an authorized official by the person who executed an instrument that it is his/her free act and deed. 2. The certificate of the official on such instrument attesting that such execution was so acknowledged.
- Browse Related Terms: Acknowledgment, Charta, Fait, Habendum, In facto, Quitclaim Deed, Tenere, Warranty deed
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A security type used by Lotus Notes developers to grant varying levels of access and user privileges within Lotus Notes databases.
- Browse Related Terms: ACL (Access Control List), De-duplication, Domino Database, ESI Structured Data Storage Systems, ESI Structured Storage Systems, Marginalia, NSF, Portable Volumes, Schema, Structured Data Applications
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