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Technology Transfer: Technology transfer
is a process through which technical information and products developed
by the Federal government are provided to potential users in a manner
that encourages and accelerates their evaluation and/or use. Usually the
Federal government is a state operated university or college that
develops some sort of technology and thus owns the intellectual property
rights for that technology. Typically the University is not in the
position to manufacture, distribute or market the technology. This
intellectual property called “the technology” is transferred or licensed
to a private company it is in a position to manufacture, market and sell
the intellectual property. Technology transfer can also occur between
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Term Of A Patent: Subject to the payment
of fees as mandated by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a
patent grant shall be for a term beginning on the date on which the
patent issues and ending 20 years from the date on which the application
for the patent was filed in the United States or, if the application
contains a specific reference to an earlier filed application or
applications, from the date on which the earliest such application was
filed. A design patent has a term of fourteen (14) years from the date
of grant. |
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Terminal Disclaimer (also "TD"): a
statement filed by an owner under 35 USC § 253 (paragraph 2) and 37 CFR
§ 1.321(b) or (c) to disclaim or dedicate to the public the entire term
or any portion of the term of a patent or patent to be granted. A TD may
be filed for the purpose of overcoming a judicially created double
patenting rejection. |
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Termination Proceedings: In each of the following situations,
proceedings are terminated:
(A) When the issue fee is not paid and the application is abandoned for
failure to pay the issue fee, proceedings are terminated as of the date
the issue fee was due and the application is the same as if it were
abandoned after midnight on that date (but if the issue fee is later
accepted, on petition, the application is revived).
(B) If an application is in interference wherein all the claims present
in the application correspond to the counts and the application loses
the interference as to all the claims, then proceedings on that
application are terminated as of the date appeal or review by civil
action was due if no appeal or civil action was filed.
(C) Proceedings are terminated in an application after decision by the
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
(D) Proceedings are terminated after a decision by the court. |
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Trade Secret: Information that companies
keep secret to give them an advantage over their competitors. |
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Trade Show: A convention at which related companies
show, promote and compare products, services and ideas to the industry
or public. |
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