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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) in the United States, or the Manual of Patent Office Practice (MOPOP) in Canada. To obtain patent rights for...

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...

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

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...

The Peer To Patent project is an initiative that seeks to assist patent offices in improving patent quality by gathering public input in a structured...

therefore, no longer pending. A patent is "allowed" when the patent office examiners have determined that the patent application meets the necessary criteria...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

most favorable legal regime for inventors and patent owners in the world. Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1)...

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

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

in the reexamination which confirmed the patentability of claims 6 to 10 of the patent. The patent examiner, however, rejected claims 1 to 5 and 11 to...

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...