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The date when a patent is no longer enforceable in a jurisdiction due to a failure to pay renewal (maintenance) fees. Often, the patent can be reinstated if appropriate fees are paid within a limited period after the lapse date.
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The level of skill in the art(s) to which an invention pertains that is used in judging whether a disclosure or claim is enabling. MPEP 2141.03.
- Browse Related Terms: Definiteness, hypothetical person skilled in the art, Level of Ordinary Skill, non obvious, Obviousness, ordinary skill in the art, Person Skilled in the Art, Routineer, Secondary Considerations, skill in the art, Unobvious
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a contract in which the owner of the patent grants another person or company permission to make, use, or sell the patented invention. Licenses may be exclusive (if a single manufacturer is licensed to develop the invention) or nonexclusive (if multiple manufacturers are licensed to develop it). Licenses can extend for the entire length of the patent or for shorter periods of time.
A right to use an invention as well as the instrument which grants that right. It allows the licensee to do things without which license would constitute infringement on the part of the licensee.
Any conveyance of a right under a patent that is not an assignment (transfer of ownership).
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The entity which is granted rights to intellectual property by the owner of that property.
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The owner of intellectual property which grants rights to another (the licensee) through a license.
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20 years from the date of filing.
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Language in a claim that constrains the breath of a claim.
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This means that a product, process, apparatus, or composition of matter satisfies every recital of a claim literally.
See Infringed Literally.
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This means a problem facing a particular technical area that has gone unsolved for a prolonged period. The presumption is if the solution had been obvious to those skilled in the art, they would have solved the problem.
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This is a measure of damages and is generally keyed to the profits that could have been the patentee's, but were lost to the infringer. The alternate standard, where the patentee is either not in the business or cannot prove that profits made by the infringer would have been his or hers, is to employ the standard of the statute that is not less than a reasonable royalty.
- Browse Related Terms: apportionment of profit, attorneys' fees award, exceptional case, indefiniteness of claim, Indemnity from Suit, Inducement to Infringe, lost profits, prejudgment interest, profits, royalty (reasonable royalty), willful infringement