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In fact; in or by the law.
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A secondary test of patentability relevant to the issue of whether an invention is obvious is whether others have failed to come up with the solution previously. Another way of expressing this concept is the existence of a long-standing and unsolved problem that tends to lend weight to patentability.
- Browse Related Terms: Double Patenting Rejection, DoublePatenting, failure of others, Intervening Rights, obvious to try, patentability search
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The value for which a reasonable seller would sell an item of property and for which a reasonable buyer would buy it.
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Accompli The deed is done.
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test result that states that an analyte is absent, when, in fact, it is present above the established limit of detection for the analyte in question.
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test result that states that an analyte is present, when, in fact, it is not present or, is present in an amount less than a threshold or designated cut-off concentration.
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A result that is not correct. This may be a result of performing a process incorrectly or using a process that is not accurate.
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Individual and family engaged in farming operation.
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An individual, individual and spouse, corporation, or partnership engaged in a farming or fishing operation that meets certain debt limits and other statutory criteria for filing a petition under chapter 12.
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Those areas of the law pertaining to families, i.e., marriage, divorce, child custody, juvenile, paternity, etc.
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-- see patent family
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A family range describes the range of documents from the first Bates production number assigned to the first page of the top most parent document through the last Bates production number assigned to the last page of the last child document.
A family range describes the range of documents from the first Bates production number assigned to the first page of the top most parent document through the last Bates production number assigned to the last page of the last child document.
- Browse Related Terms: "Bates Numbering" or "Bates Stamping", Bates Number, Bates Production Number, Beginning Document Number or BegDoc#, Family Range, Family Relationship, Production Number
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A family relationship is formed among two or more documents that have a connection or relatedness because of some factor.
A family relationship is formed among two or more documents that have a connection or relatedness because of some factor.
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comprise terms that have been invented for the sole purpose of functioning as a trademark or service mark. Such marks comprise words that are either unknown in the language (e.g., PEPSI, KODAK, EXXON) or are completely out of common usage (e.g., FLIVVER).
- Browse Related Terms: arbitrary marks, certification mark, collective mark, CSR, DNS, fanciful marks, FAS, fee, FQA, goods and services, mere descriptiveness, service mark, SM, suggestive mark, trade dress, trademark, TTY, WINS
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Foreign Agricultural Service
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Fastener Quality Act (15 U.S.C. 5401 et seq., as amended by Public Law 104-113, Public Law 105-234, and Public Law 106-34); implementing regulations: 15 C.F.R. Part 280
Purpose: Protects against the sale of mismarked, misrepresented, and counterfeit fasteners.
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- Browse Related Terms: AIPA, DID, Fastener Quality Act, patentable, PBG, PBG Final Rule, USPTO
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An internal data table on hard drives that keeps track of where the files are stored. If a FAT is corrupt, a drive may be unusable, yet the data may be retrievable with forensics. See Cluster File.
- Browse Related Terms: Disk Mirroring, Evidentiary Image or Copy, FAT (File Allocation Table), File System, Image, Images (also forensic images or mirror images), Images (or forensic duplicates or mirror images), MFT (Master File Table), Mirror Image