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A device, a product, a physical thing. Under U.S. law, one of the statutory classes of inventions.MPEP 2105, MPEP 2106, MPEP 2114.
- Browse Related Terms: Apparatus, Article of Manufacture, Claim, Process, Claim, Product, Composition of Matter, Machine, method, process, Product, Product of Nature
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The patent fees due at 4, 8 and 12 years needed to keep a U. S. utility or plant patent in force for its full life.
- Browse Related Terms: Annuity, Fee, Filing, Fee, Issue, Fee, Maintenance, Fee, Petition, Filing Fee, Forfeited Application, Issue Fee, Lapse Date, maintenance, Maintenance Fee, maintenance fees, Renewal Fee, Small Entity
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See Fee, Maintenance.
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In the United States, maintenance fees or taxes must be paid at 3.5, 7.5, and 11.5 years after issuance of a patent in order to maintain the patent in force.
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A document that contains a description of the practices and procedures of the USPTO.
- Browse Related Terms: Assignee, assignor, date of application, dedication to the public, Depositing Correspondence, Disclosure Document Program, File History, File Wrapper, Filing Date, issue date, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP), patent application, serial number, Terminal Disclaimer
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One of the classes of patentable subject matter under U.S. law. MPEP 2105.
- Browse Related Terms: apparatus claim, basic patent or pioneer patent, classification, Count, Dominating Patent, Knowledgebase, Manufacture, New Use, Reads On, Statutory Subject Matter
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See Claim, Markush.
- Browse Related Terms: Cancelled Matter, claim, Claim, Jepson, Claim, Markush, Claim, Picture, Consisting of, Dominated, Improvement Patent, Jepson claim, Limitation, Markush Claim, Markush Group, Means Plus Function Language, Means-Plus-Function Claim, metes and bounds, preamble, Preamble of Claim
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In a claim, a finite group from which an element is selected. See Claim, Markush.
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An agreement that provides the understanding that the materials are made available only for scientific work.
- Browse Related Terms: Application (for Patent), Biological Material, Drawing, Duty of Disclosure, Ex Parte, File Wrapper Estoppel, fraud on the Patent and Trademark Office, Incorporation by Reference, materials transfer agreement, prior-art statement, Prosecution History
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A patent claim that recites an element as a means for accomplishing a particular function. MPEP 2181.
- Browse Related Terms: aggregation, equivalents - means-plus-function claims, Indefinite Claim, Inherency, inventive entity, Means for Claim, Negative Limitation, Prolix Claim
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See Means for Claim.
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See Means for Claim.
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The legal description of the exact property which is covered by a patent (the Claims).
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One of the classes of patentable inventions (a process) under U.S. law. MPEP 706.01(a).
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Using a patent right inappropriately, for example, for forcing a license to purchase a prodict that is not covered by the claims of the patent.
- Browse Related Terms: assignment, bailment, Cross License, due diligence terms, exclusive license, Field of Use, field of use license, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), ipr hygiene, license, licensee, licensor, Misuse, Patent Owner, Property, technology licensing, Technology Manager, WIPO, Worked or Working
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See Best Mode.
- Browse Related Terms: Claimed Invention, doctrine of claim differentiation, interference, inventor, joint inventor, Mode, Best, preferred embodiment, reduction to practice
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See Exhibit.
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A dependent claim that refers back in the alternative to more than one preceding independent or dependent claim. MPEP 608.01(n).
- 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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