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...
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special types of claims that may be found in a patent or patent application. For explanations about independent and dependent claims and about the different...
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Claims-based identity Claim (philosophy) Land claim A main contention, see conclusion of law Patent claim The assertion of a proposition; see Douglas N...
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claimed by the specification. The process of "negotiating" or "arguing" with a patent office for the grant of a patent, and interaction with a patent...
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patent infringement.[citation needed] The scope of the patented invention or the extent of protection is defined in the claims of the granted patent....
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Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. This includes new types of e-commerce, insurance...
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a patent application must include one or more claims that define the scope of protection that is being sought. A patent may include many claims, each...
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list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial right...
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ceased funding for the patenting process, so at this time a claim cannot be patented.[citation needed] A dispute when one party (a "claim jumper") attempts...
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in patent infringement cases. Patent validity can be challenged in the same US Federal District courts, as a declarative judgement or counter-claim of...
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Inventive step and non-obviousness (redirect from Non-obviousness (patent))
inventive step and non-obviousness reflect a general patentability requirement present in most patent laws, according to which an invention should be sufficiently...
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Prior art (redirect from Patent search)
disclosed, to the public that might be relevant to a patent's claim before the effective filing date of a patent application for an invention. However, notable...
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Novelty is one of the patentability requirement for a patent claim, whose purpose is to prevent issuing patents on known things, i.e. to prevent public...
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of the inventions. Once a patent is granted in a given country, no person may make, use, sell or import/export the claimed invention in that country without...
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rejection of a given set of claims. In the United States, the patent grant is presumptive, e.g. a patent shall issue unless the patent statutes preclude the...
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The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...
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The software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of public policy, it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented...
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be used in patent claims. These generic structures are used to make the patent claim as broad as possible. In the United States, patents on pharmaceuticals...
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A claim chart is a widely used device in patent infringement litigation. It is a convenient and effective means for analyzing and presenting information...
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A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...
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Doctrine of equivalents (category Patent law)
process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim but is nevertheless equivalent to the claimed invention. In the United States, Judge Learned...
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priority is claimed (excluding provisional applications). The patent term in the United States was changed in 1995 to bring U.S. patent law into conformity...
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Sufficiency of disclosure (category Patent law)
Sufficiency of disclosure or enablement is a patent law requirement that a patent application disclose a claimed invention in sufficient detail so that the...
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Provisional application (redirect from Provisional patent)
understanding of the subject matter sought to be patented), but does not require formal patent claims, inventors' oaths or declarations, or any information...
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Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...
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: 262–263 Contemporary criticisms have echoed those arguments, claiming that patents block innovation and waste resources that could otherwise be used...
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context, the utility problem usually arises when there is a patent claim on a new drug, but the patent disclosure does not specify (or does not prove) what disease...
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they will not assert any patent claims unless someone tried to assert a claim against Cisco. IBM also claims covering patents and their statement is readable...
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United States patent law, a continuing patent application is a patent application that follows, and claims priority to, an earlier-filed patent application...
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business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against...
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