A patent examiner (or, historically, a patent clerk) is an employee, usually a civil servant with a scientific or engineering background, working at a...

representation by a registered patent attorney or patent agent. The patent examiner cannot recommend a specific attorney or agent, but the Patent Office does post a...

application. In the typical case, a patent examiner will examine patent claims and amendments in an original patent application for two rounds of "office...

concept in Irish law Medical examiner Patent examiner Trademark examiner, an attorney employed by a government entity The Examiner (Kiama, New South Wales)...

handle less than seven patent applications per month and a USPTO examiner would handle eight applications per month, an Indian examiner reportedly handles...

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications...

procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently...

Once filed, a patent application is "prosecuted". A patent examiner reviews the patent application to determine if it meets the patentability requirements...

patentability is one aspect of the official examination of a patent application performed by a patent examiner and may be tested in post-grant patent...

International Patent Institute (IIB), established in 1947 and integrated into the European Patent Organisation on its creation Patent examiner Trilateral Patent Offices...

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department of the European Patent Office (EPO). For instance, a decision of an Examining Division refusing to grant a European patent application may be appealed...

A chemical patent, pharmaceutical patent or drug patent is a patent for an invention in the chemical or pharmaceuticals industry. Strictly speaking, in...

Under United States patent law, the term of patent, provided that maintenance fees are paid on time, is 20 years from the filing date of the earliest U...

A trademark examiner is an attorney employed by a government entity such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to determine whether...

Patent prosecution is the interaction between applicants and a patent office with regard to a patent application or a patent. The prosecution process is...

1790. First Patent Act empowered the Secretary of State, the Secretary for the Department of War, and the Attorney General to examine patents for inventions...

hold law degrees but have received legal training in patent law. "A patent examiner is hired based on their technical expertise, their professional qualifications...

and then most probably rejected by the patent examiner, after he has done a formal examination. Even if a patent is granted, it does not mean that the...

after a patent issues. The purpose of a validity (or invalidity) search is to find prior art that the patent examiner overlooked so that a patent can be...

issued, an examiner with special expertise in unity of invention and, normally, the examiner who issued the invitation." Although U.S. patent law does not...

was an American electrical experimenter and inventor, physician, patent examiner, patent advocate, and professor of chemistry. Like his more famous contemporaries...

The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) is published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for use by patent attorneys and...

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...

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...

States patent law, a reexamination is a process whereby anyone—third party or inventor—can have a U.S. patent reexamined by a patent examiner to verify...

Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of - for example - making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product...

discussed "in a general way" Gray's caveat with patent examiner Zenas Fisk Wilber. However, when patent examiners investigated possible interferences between...

patent as an example of the patent office's inability to properly examine patent applications. The patent examiner cited only seven previous patents issued...

Patent Office, examiners are notably in charge of studying European patent applications, filed by applicants, to decide whether to grant a patent for an invention...