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United States Patent and Trademark Office
Industry: Legal services
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If an application is abandoned due to a USPTO Office error, an applicant may file a request to reinstate the application, instead of a petition to revive. There is no fee for a request for reinstatement. You must file a request for reinstatement within two months of the issue date of the notice of abandonment. You must include a true copy of the document that was timely submitted, and a copy of an acceptable form of proof of receipt in the USPTO.
Industry:Legal services
implement streamlined patent practice; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
Industry:Legal services
in the context of actions or activities involving the USPTO this refers to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) itself
Industry:Legal services
information that companies keep secret to give them an advantage over their competitors
Industry:Legal services
Inter partes reexamination practice primarily differs from ex parte practice in that the third party requestor may file written comments addressing issues raised by the patent owner in a response to Office action.
Industry:Legal services
may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant. --see also patent
Industry:Legal services
may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new, useful, and nonobvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
Industry:Legal services
NOA, a notification to the applicant that they are entitled to a patent under the law and requesting payment of a specified issue fee (and possibly a publication fee as well) within three months (non-extendable) from the mailing date of the notice of allowance
Industry:Legal services
one who contributes to the conception of an invention. The patent law of the United States of America requires that the applicant in a patent application must be the inventor.
Industry:Legal services
one who stands for or acts on behalf of another. A patent attorney or patent agent may represent the inventors named in a patent application.
Industry:Legal services