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

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...

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

patent family is a set of patents or patent applications in various countries in relation to a single invention, for example when a first application...

cessation of a patent application’s progress due to the applicant’s failure to make a bona fide attempt to advance the patent application to a final conclusion...

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

provisional application is a patent application filed at the intellectual property offices of some countries. It does not mature into an issued patent and is...

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

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...

Notably, patent term adjustment is not available for divisional (and other continuing) patents issued from the same priority application (see Mohsenzadeh...

international patent applications filed in accordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The legal basis for the United States patent system is the Copyright...

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...

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

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defined, the backlog of unexamined patent applications consists, at one point in time, of all the patent applications that have been filed and still remain...

European patents, but this exclusion from patentability only applies to the extent to which a European patent application or European patent relates to...

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

patenting of fantastic or hypothetical devices such as perpetual motion machines. The patent examiners guidelines require that a patent application expresses...

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

and the 1920 version, are rectangular in shape. However, the first patent application for a round-frame human gimbal set was made in July 1964. The aerotrim...

therefore not patentable if it was known to the public before the priority date of the patent application. Although the concept of "novelty" in patent law appears...

JPO has continued to amend these guidelines to clarify their application to new technologies. These amendments have broadened the scope of patents within...

"methods of doing business" were not patentable. With the emergence in the 1980s and 1990s of patent applications on internet or computer enabled methods...

before the European Patent Office (EPO) is an ex parte, administrative procedure, which includes the filing of a European patent application, the examination...

Non-Provisional Application Preparation - Domestic PA330 Design Application Preparation - Domestic PA340 Plant Patent Preparation - Domestic PA350 Continuing Application...

International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) for patent applications filed in accordance with the Patent Co-operation Treaty since 31 March 1980. Australia...

11, 2016, Michael Scott McCoskery filed a provisional patent application for a utility patent on a version of the toy featuring a centrally mounted ball...

An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering...

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

from the bra patent over the next thirty years. Bras became more common and widely promoted throughout the 1910s, aided by the continuing trend towards...