In a patent or patent application, the claims define in technical terms the extent, i.e. the scope, of the protection conferred by a patent, or the protection...

special types of claims that may be found in a patent or patent application. For explanations about independent and dependent claims and about the different...

Claims-based identity Claim (philosophy) Land claim A main contention, see conclusion of law Patent claim The assertion of a proposition; see Douglas N...

of the patented invention or the extent of protection is defined in the claims of the granted patent. In other words, the terms of the claims inform the...

claimed by the specification. The process of "negotiating" or "arguing" with a patent office for the grant of a patent, and interaction with a patent...

1870. Fourth Patent Act required the use of patent claims in the nearly exact language used today: "particularly point out and distinctly claim the part,...

a patent application must include one or more claims that define the scope of protection that is being sought. A patent may include many claims, each...

disclosed, to the public that might be relevant to a patent's claim before the effective filing date of a patent application for an invention. However, notable...

inventive step and non-obviousness reflect a general patentability requirement present in most patent laws, according to which an invention should be sufficiently...

list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial right...

ceased funding for the patenting process, so at this time a claim cannot be patented.[citation needed] A dispute when one party (a "claim jumper") attempts...

of the inventions. Once a patent is granted in a given country, no person may make, use, sell or import/export the claimed invention in that country without...

rejection of a given set of claims. In the United States, the patent grant is presumptive, e.g. a patent shall issue unless the patent statutes preclude the...

A claim chart is a widely used device in patent infringement litigation. It is a convenient and effective means for analyzing and presenting information...

Novelty is one of the patentability requirement for a patent claim, whose purpose is to prevent issuing patents on known things, i.e. to prevent public...

be used in patent claims. These generic structures are used to make the patent claim as broad as possible. In the United States, patents on pharmaceuticals...

The software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of public policy, it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented...

The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...

business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against...

they will not assert any patent claims unless someone tried to assert a claim against Cisco. IBM also claims covering patents and their statement is readable...

process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim but is nevertheless equivalent to the claimed invention. In the United States, Judge Learned...

Sufficiency of disclosure or enablement is a patent law requirement that a patent application disclose a claimed invention in sufficient detail so that the...

understanding of the subject matter sought to be patented), but does not require formal patent claims, inventors' oaths or declarations, or any information...

: 262–263  Contemporary criticisms have echoed those arguments, claiming that patents block innovation and waste resources that could otherwise be used...

Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. This includes new types of e-commerce, insurance...

context, the utility problem usually arises when there is a patent claim on a new drug, but the patent disclosure does not specify (or does not prove) what disease...

Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...

sale of sildenafil citrate drugs is common in China, where Pfizer's patent claim is not widely enforced. Egypt approved Viagra for sale in 2002, but soon...

A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...

method patent claim can be infringed only when a single person or entity (including contractually obligated agents) practices all of the claimed steps...