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...

States patent law, a continuing patent application is a patent application that follows, and claims priority to, an earlier-filed patent application. A continuing...

Under United States patent law, a provisional application is a legal document filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), that establishes...

A divisional patent application, also called divisional application or simply divisional, is a type of patent application that contains subject-matter...

applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application...

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

a college or university Patent application, a document filed at a patent office to support the grant of a patent Application (virtue), a characteristic...

coverage of a design by filing a single application in a single language (e.g. English). A US design patent covers the ornamental design of an article...

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

Patents are territorial in nature. To obtain a patent, inventors must file patent applications in each and every country in which they want a patent....

structure is like a business in that it receives requests for services—applications for patents and trademark registrations—and charges fees projected to cover...

pending. A patent is "allowed" when the patent office examiners have determined that the patent application meets the necessary criteria of novelty,...

granting of European patents, via a single, harmonised procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO). A single patent application, in one language, may...

"sufficiently useful and important." 1793. Second Patent Act eliminated examination of patent applications, emphasized enablement requirement. This Act did...

"substantive examination" of a patent application in order to determine whether an invention claimed in the patent application meets the novelty and inventive...

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

process once a patent application for the product or process has been filed, but prior to the patent being issued or the application abandoned. The marking...

decade. This strategy requires a patent system where, first, patent applications are not published, and, second, patent term is measured from grant date...

starting from the filing date of the patent application or from the date of grant of the patent. In most patent laws, annuities or maintenance fees have...

German patent number 37435, for which Karl Benz applied on 29 January 1886. Following official procedures, the date of the application became the patent date...

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...

grant a patent or reject the patent application based on whether the application fulfils the requirements for patentability." For a list of patent offices...

jurisdictions' patent law, industrial applicability or industrial application is a patentability requirement according to which a patent can only be granted...

patent law in 2005, just before the laws came into effect, which played a key role in the rejection of the patent application. The patent application...

issued patents or on pending patent applications to determine if a product or process infringes any of the claims of the issued patents or pending patent applications...

patent office. Patent examiners review patent applications to determine whether the invention(s) claimed in each of them should be granted a patent or...

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...

not claimed in a patent are not inventors. As the patent application moves through an examination at the USPTO, the original application is usually split...

software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software patents cover...

international application (that is to say, an application under the PCT system) to which priority is claimed (excluding provisional applications). The patent term...