- Industry: Legal services
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The term "parent" is applied to an earlier application of the inventor disclosing a given invention
Industry:Legal services
There are several substantive reasons for refusing registration of a mark. These include: likelihood of confusion; primarily merely descriptive or deceptively misdescriptive of the goods/services; primarily geographically descriptive or primarily geographically deceptively; misdescriptive of the goods/services; primarily merely a surname; or mere ornamentation. This is not a complete list of all possible grounds of refusal.
Industry:Legal services
time period after which a utility patent (that issues from an application filed on or after 12 December 1980) expires if a maintenance fee has not been paid. A petition must be filed along with the appropriate fees to reinstate an expired patent.
Industry:Legal services
time period when a maintenance fee can be paid with or without a surcharge.
Industry:Legal services
a document that must be included only if a nucleotide or amino acid sequence is part of the invention. With EFS, paper documents are not required for bio-sequence or subsequent bio-sequence submissions.
Industry:Legal services
Online retrieval of documents from the electronic case file for federal trademark applications and registrations. To access information about a specific mark, users must provide the associated serial number,registration number, reference number, or international registration number of the record they seek.
Industry:Legal services
There are 4 filing bases on which an application may be based. One filing basis is use of the mark in commerce (the other three are filing based on an intent-to-use the mark in commerce, filing based on a pending foreign application, and filing based on a foreign registration). Applicants who file based on use in commerce must be using the mark they wish to register with the goods or services in the application prior to or at the time of filing the application.
Industry:Legal services
unauthorized making, using, offering to sell, selling or importing into the United States any patented invention
Industry:Legal services
unique number assigned to a patent application when it issues as a patent -- see list
Industry:Legal services
used by patent examiners to generate office actions.
Industry:Legal services
