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Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing A type of licensing typically used during standardization processes. We keep on improving, advancing and developing as a species and a community. Whatever you do, take the time upfront to spend all your talents on setting your idea apart and showing how it is a significantly original creation, that can be told apart from millions of others, unique in its features, service, nature and functionality. ) part 2 FAST FACT: Intellectual property laws are designed to protect different forms of intangible subject matter, although in some cases there is a degree of overlap. Utilize all aspects of patent law and what it has to offer. How would you go about speeding up this process of innovative, ingenious, invention submission or invention marketing and licensing of new ideas and new inventions.
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Interference proceeding A type of proceedings, particularly at the USPTO, to decide who is entitled to the grant of a patent for an invention. It is not automatically granted, just because these rights are in place. Anything to get and keep them ahead is seen as a worthwhile investment.
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Inventive step A patentability requirement according to which an invention should be sufficiently inventive, i.e. non-obvious, in order to be patented. See also non-obviousness.
Inventor The actual devisor of an invention that is the subject of a patent.
Letters patent An old term for a patent, sometimes used in reference to a bound formal copy of a patent provided by the USPTO to the inventor upon a patent's issue.
Maintenance fee A fee to be paid to maintain a patent in force.
Non-obviousness A patentability requirement according to which an invention should be non-obvious in order to be patented. See also Inventive step.
Novelty A patentability requirement according to which an invention is not patentable if it was already known before the date of filing.
On-sale bar A concept of US law in which the grant of a patent is prevented if the invention that is the subject of the patent application was on sale more than one year prior to the priority date.
Opposition proceeding Proceedings in which a third party opposes the grant of a patent in an attempt to prevent that grant, or have the patent revoked.
Patent classification Classification of patents in technological areas for convenient retrieval during prior art searches.
Patent family A group of patents related by a common priority claim.
Patent infringement Commercially exploiting an invention claimed in a patent without permission of the patentee.
Patent misuse In United States patent law, an affirmative defense used in patent litigation after the defendant has been found to have infringed a patent.
Patent model A miniature model that shows how an invention works.
Patent pending A term used to describe an invention for which a patent application is pending at a patent office. Used to mark products to alert people to the possible existence of a patent, thereby initiating the date from which damages may be claimed.
Patent pool A consortium of at least two companies agreeing to cross-license patents and other IP rights relating to a particular technology.
Patent watch A process for monitoring newly issued patents on a periodic basis to see if any of these patents might be of interest.
Patentability A set of substantive requirements for a patent to be granted.
Patentable subject matter Patent systems exclude certain areas from the grant of patents. Material not so excluded is known as patentable subject matter.
Person having ordinary skill in the art A hypothetical person having typical knowledge of a particular field or art, used such as to assess whether an invention is non-obvious or whether the specification of the patent enables one to practice what is claimed.
Petition to make special A United States patent law procedure that requests the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to accelerate a patent's prosecution, based on a showing that certain conditions are met. For example, if the inventor is old or sick, or the field of invention is a favored area of science that significantly enriches people's lives, The U.S. PTO may allow such a petition.