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Incorporation By Reference: To supplement the disclosure of a patent
application by making a specific statement in the application that other
material is to be considered to be incorporated in the application. |
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Independent Claim: A claim that does not
refer back to or depend on another claim. |
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Industrial Property: Intellectual property
is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes
inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic
indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and
artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works,
artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures,
and architectural designs. |
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Information Disclosure Statement (IDS): For patent applications filed under 35 U.S.C.
§ 111(a), applicants and other individuals who are substantively
involved in preparing or prosecuting a patent application must submit to
the Office information which is material to patentability (could render
a claim unpatentable) as defined in 37 CFR § 1.56. The provisions of 37
CFR § 1.97 and 37 CFR § 1.98 provide a mechanism for compliance with
the duty of disclosure provided in 37 CFR § 1.56. The IDS must include a
list of all patents, publications, U.S. applications, or other
information submitted for consideration by the Office. The USPTO
provides forms for use in the submission of an IDS, the PTO/SB/08a and
PTO/SB/08b. |
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Infringement: Unauthorized making, using, offering to
sell, selling or importing into the United States any patented
invention. |
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Injunction: A
writ (order) issued by a court ordering someone to do something or
prohibiting some act after a court hearing. The procedure is for someone
who has been or is in danger of being harmed, or needs some help
(relief) or his/her attorney, to a) petition for the injunction to
protect his/her rights. |
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Intellectual Property: Creations of the
mind - creative works or ideas embodied in a form that can be shared or
can enable others to recreate, emulate, or manufacture them: inventions,
literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images and designs used in
commerce. There are four ways to protect intellectual property -
patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secrets. |
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Interference: A proceeding, conducted
before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), to
determine priority of invention between a pending application and one or
more pending applications and/or one or more unexpired patents. |
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International Application: An application
filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. |
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International Patent Cooperation Union (IPCU):
The Contracting States party to this Treaty constitute a Union for
cooperation in the filing, searching, and examination, of applications
for the protection of inventions, and for rendering special technical
services. |
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Inter Partes Reexamination: At any time
during the enforceability of a patent, any person may file a request for
the USPTO to conduct a second examination of any of its claims on the
basis of prior art patents or printed publications believed pertinent
and believed to have a bearing on the claim's patentability. Inter
partes reexamination practice primarily differs from ex parte practice
in that the third party requestor may file written comments addressing
issues raised by the patent owner in a response to Office action. The
third party has to do so within 30 days of the date of service of the
patent owner's response. |
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Invention: Any art or process (way of
doing or making things), machine, manufacture, design, or composition of
matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of
plant, which is or may be patentable under the patent laws of the United
States. |
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Invention Assessment: The opinionated
determination of value of an idea for a new, useful and non-obvious
invention. |
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Inventive Entity: The inventors. |
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Inventor: One who contributes to the
conception of an invention. The patent law of the United States of
America requires that the applicant in a patent application must be the
inventor. See also applicant. |
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Issuance Fee: Fee required before a patent
is granted. |
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Issue Date: date on which the patent is
granted. |
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