Patent terms starting with U

14 terms

  1. Undue Experimentation An amount of experimentation required to practice a disclosed invention that would be unreasonable. MPEP 2164.01, MPEP 818.03(c).
  2. Unenforceable A determonation by a court that a patent cannot be enforced against a party that would otherwise be infringing its claims, because the patent is defective.
  3. United States Code The laws of the U.S.
  4. United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) The agency of the U.S. Federal Government responsible for administering the country's patent system.
  5. United States Patent and Trademark Office Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) The regulations promulgated by the USPTO.
  6. university research All research conducted in the course of an inventor's employment with the University (including, but not limited to, the performance of a grant, contract…
  7. Unobvious The state of a claimed invention's not being obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the invention pertains. Also called non-obvious.
  8. unpatentable Descriptive of an invention not involving sufficient departure from what was known before in the art or that for some other reason is not the proper…
  9. Unreasonable Experimentation See Undue Experimentation.
  10. Useful Having some practical utility; fit for some desirable practical or commercial purpose. One of the three requirements for patentability under U.S. law.
  11. USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office, designation became effective April 3, 2000; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
  12. Utility See Useful.
  13. Utility Model A type of patent available in some countries that requires less inventiveness than necessary to obtain a patent.
  14. Utility Patent may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new, useful, and nonobvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or…