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Law terms

3001. statue of limitations A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
3002. Status The legal standing of a patent appplication or patent. MPEP 102.
3003. Status Bar A bar at the bottom of a window that is used to indicate the status of a task. For example, when an email message is sent, the status bar will fill with…
3004. Status offense A class of crimes that concerns the accused’s characteristics; for example - truancy only applies to minors.
3005. Status quo or status in quo The existing state of something.
3006. statute Legislative enactment; it may be a single act of a legislature or a body of acts which are collected and arranged for a session of a legislature.
3007. Statute of frauds A statutory requirement that certain contracts must be in writing.
3008. statute of limitations A statute which limits the right of a plaintiff to file an action unless it is done within a specified time period after the occurrence which gives rise…
3009. statutes at large A chronological listing of the laws enacted each Congress. They are published in volumes numbered by Congress.
3010. Statutory Relating to a statute; created or defined by a law.
3011. Statutory Bar A bar to patentability established by law. MPEP 2133.
3012. Statutory construction Process by which a court seeks to interpret the meaning and scope of legislation.
3013. statutory disclaimer Under 35 USC § 253 (paragraph 1) and 37 CFR 1.321(a), the owner (in part or in entirety) of a patent may relinquish all rights to a complete claim or…
3014. Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) Registration of an invention with the USPTO to place an invention in the public domain.
3015. Statutory law Laws promulgated by Congress and state legislatures. See case law and common law.
3016. statutory limit on the public debt The maximum amount, established in law, of public debt that can be outstanding.
3017. Statutory Period The period within which a response be filed with the USPTO if abandonment of the application is to be avoided. MPEP 710.01, MPEP 710.01(a), MPEP 710.
3018. Statutory research Research of legislation enacted by a state or the United States.
3019. Statutory Subject Matter Patentable subject matter. MPEP 2105.
3020. Stay A court order halting an event.
3021. Stay or To Stay The Court can determine that the plaintiff/landlord is entitled to a Writ of recovery of premises and order to vacate but "stay the writ" for a certain…
3022. Steganography The hiding of information within a more obvious kind of communication. Although not widely used, digital steganography involves the hiding of data inside…
3023. Stippling A disposition of fragments of powder into the skin as the result of a gunshot wound of relatively close range.
3024. Stipulation An agreement between the parties to settle all or part of the case without further hearings. The stipulation must be approved by the Court.
3025. Storage Device Any device that a computer uses to store information.
3026. Storage Media Any removable device that stores data. See magnetic or optical storage media.
3027. straight bankruptcy Proceedings under Chapter 7.
3028. Strict liability Concept applied by the courts in product liability cases that when a manufacturer presents his goods for public sale, it is representing that they are…
3029. Strike Strike means a labor dispute wherein employees engage in a concerted stoppage of work (including stoppage by reason of the expiration of a collective…
3030. Strike or Stricken In Housing Court, striken is used as an outcome (disposition) of cases where no one came to court, or where the case was filed, but no affidavits of…
3031. Structured Data Applications The GUI is the only way to make sense of the database. For example a vector based mapping application that stores all the lease and Right of Way…
3032. stylized mark one type of depiction of the mark sought to be registered. Another name for this type of mark is "special form.
3033. Sua sponte Of its own volition or motion; spontaneously.
3034. SUB Under or subordinate to.
3035. Sub conditione Under a condition; on condition.
3036. Subarachnoid hemorrhage bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin tissues that cover the brain.
3037. subcommittee Subunit of a committee established for the purpose of dividing the committee's workload.
3038. Subdural hematoma A collection of blood on the surface of the brain.
3039. Subjective Coding The coding of a document using legal interpretation as the data that fills a field, versus objective data that is readily apparent from the face of the…
3040. Submission any single delivery of evidence in a specific investigation.
3041. Submitting Agency any agency that submits evidence for examination to any ADFS office. Also referred to as the “Contributing Agency, Contributor, or Customer”.
3042. Subnet Address In computer networks, a subnetwork or subnet is a range of logical addresses within the address space that is assigned to an organization.
3043. Subpoena A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
3044. subpoena duces tecum A subpoena ordering a person to produce certain documents, records, or other items described therein for evidence (also under penalty for failure to…
3045. subsequent designation A request by the holder of an international trademark registration for an extension of protection of the registration to additional Contracting Parties.
3046. Substantial assistance The United States Sentencing Commission's sentencing guidelines contain a policy statement allowing the court to depart from the guidelines and impose a…
3047. Substantiated facts The facts that have been verified.
3048. substantive consolidation Putting the assets and liabilities of two or more related debtors into a single pool to pay creditors.
3049. Substantive Examination The examination of a patent application by a patent office to determine whether a patent should be granted on the claimed invention.
3050. Substantive law The statutory or written law that governs rights and obligations of those who are subject to it.
3051. substantive reasons for refusal There are several substantive reasons for refusing registration of a mark. These include: likelihood of confusion; primarily merely descriptive or…
3052. Substitute Patent Application an application which is in essence a duplicate of a prior (earlier filed) application by the same applicant abandoned before the filing of the substitute…
3053. Substitute Service When the actual person being sued is not personally served, she/he may properly be served by handing the summons and complaint to "a person of suitable…
3054. Substitute Specification A rewritten specification of a patent application filed after the filing date of the application that corrects some error but that does not introduce new…
3055. Subtractive Colors Since the colors of objects are white light minus the color absorbed by the object, they are called subtractive. This is how ink on paper works.
3056. suggestive mark a mark that, when applied to the goods or services at issue, requires imagination, thought or perception to reach a conclusion as to the nature of those…
3057. Sui generis Of his, her, or its own kind.
3058. summary judgment Either party can make a motion (a request) that the Court decide the case based solely on the pleadings or documents that have been filed.
3059. Summation iBlaze A LAN-based document management program, available in multiple versions with differing features, including search, transcript management, document…
3060. Summons The Order from the Court Administrator to the defendant telling her/him to come to court to respond to the Complaint, which must be attached to the…
3061. Supersedeas Preventing or annulling; a writ to stay a legal proceeding.
3062. Supersedeas bond A bond given by an appellant in order to obtain a stay of the judgment awarded at trial and for the purpose of ensuring that if the appellant loses the…
3063. Supervised Casework analysis performed by a member under the supervision of a certified analyst. This is generally performed as part of training or as part of an assessment…
3064. Supervised release A term of supervised release must be ordered by the court when required by statute or following a sentence of more than one year in prison.
3065. Supervised visitation a form of visitation in which an adult supervisor must be present when the child is visiting with the non-custodial parent.
3066. Supplanting Supplanting is defined as replacing state or local funds that otherwise would have been spent on law enforcement purposes with Federal COPS funds.
3067. Supplemental Appropriation Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided.
3068. supplemental register secondary trademark register for the USPTO. It allows for registration of certain marks that are not eligible for registration on the Principal Register…
3069. supplemental, minority, and additional views Senate Rule XXVI requires that, when a committee (other than the Appropriations Committee) reports a measure, committee members may have three days to…
3070. Support Resources Nonsworn personnel funded under this grant should allow for the redeployment of current sworn officers into community policing.
3071. Support trust A trust that instructs the trustee to spend only as much income and principal (the assets held in the trust) as needed for the beneficiary's support.
3072. Suppress To forbid the use of evidence at a trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained. See exclusionary rule.
3073. Suppression motion A motion filed by the defendant seeking to suppress or prevent the government from using evidence at trial that the government is alleged to have obtained…
3074. Supra Before; above.
3075. surcharge due an additional fee that may be required due to late or insufficient payment of fees
3076. Surety Bond A bond purchased at the expense of the estate to insure the executor's proper performance. Also referred to as "fidelity bond."
3077. Surrender of Patent An act that occurs concurently with the filing of a reissue patent application in the USPTO. MPEP 1416.
3078. Survivorship (ser-VY-ver-ship) In cancer, survivorship covers the physical, psychosocial, and economic issues of cancer, from diagnosis until the end of life.
3079. Suspended sentence If certain conditions are met, a jail sentence need not be served. The sentence is then suspended.
3080. Suspender un procedimiento Una orden judicial que suspende un caso o algunos procedimientos designados del caso.
3081. Suspension The temporary disqualification of a firm or individual from contracting with the government or participating in government programs, pending the outcome…
3082. suspension inquiry letter an Office action inquiring as to the status of the matter that is the basis for suspension of an application.
3083. suspension letter suspends the action on an application. An application may be suspended for a variety of reasons.
3084. Suspension Notice, Suspension Order See Legal Hold.
3085. Sustain A court ruling upholding an objection or a motion.
3086. SVGA (Super Video Graphics Adapter) A graphics adapter one which exceeds the minimum VGA standard of 640 by 480 by 16 colors. Can reach 1600 by 1280 by 256 colors.
3087. Swap File A file used to temporarily store code and data for programs that are currently running.
3088. Swearing Back of Reference Removing a reference (e.g., publication) from the prior art by providing evidence to the USPTO that either (1) conception of the invention occurred prior…
3089. SysAdmin System administrator
3090. SYSOP System administrator
3091. System Administrator (sys admin, sys op) The person in charge of keeping a network working.
3092. System administrator (sysadmin, sysop) The person in charge of keeping a network working.
3093. System Registry The system configuration files used by Microsoft Windows to store settings about user preferences, installed software, hardware and drivers, and other…
3094. T1 A high speed, high bandwidth leased line connection to the Internet. T1 connections deliver information at 1.544 megabits per second.
3095. T3 A high speed, high bandwidth leased line connection to the Internet. T3 connections deliver information at 44.746 megabits per second.
3096. table, motion to A Senator may move to table any pending question. The motion is not debatable, and agreement to the motion is equivalent to defeating the question tabled.
3097. Tagged image File Format (TIF or TIFF) One of the most widely supported file formats for storing bit-mapped images. Files in TIFF format often end with a .tif extension.
3098. Tape Drive A hardware device used to store data on a magnetic tape. Tape drives are usually used to back up large quantities of data due to their large capacity and…
3099. TARR Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval system -- see TARR USPTO's online database for monitoring federal trademark applications and…
3100. Tax Court of the United States A judicial body which hears cases concerning federal tax laws.