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Glossary of patent law terms

This is a 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 to exclude others from commercially exploiting the invention, granted to an inventor or their successor in rights in exchange to a public disclosure of the invention.

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Abandonment

Arrow declaration

Assignor estoppel

Auslegeschrift

Author’s certificate

Biogen sufficiency

Bolar exemption

Branching off

Catch and release

Chapter I

  • PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty

Claim

Clearance search and opinion

Common general knowledge

Compulsory license

Continuation-in-part application

Continuing application

Contribution approach

DAS (Digital Access Service)

Defensive patenting

Defensive termination

Dependent claim

Derivation proceeding

Essential patent

European Patent Office (EPO)

Examination support document

Field-of-use limitation

Filing date

First to file

Gebrauchsmuster

Industrial property

Interference proceeding

Intermediate generalisation

  • Amendment Amendments under the European Patent Convention

License of right

Machine-or-transformation test

McKesson Reference

National phase

Non-obviousness

Non-patent literature

Non-provisional patent application

Objective technical problem

Office action

Patent

Patent ambush

Patent caveat

PCT Direct

Petition to make special

Petty patent

Pre-grant Publication

Prosecution history estoppel

Protective letter

Regional patent

Regional phase

Rejection

Search report

Software patent

Statutory Invention Registration

Sufficiency of disclosure

Supplementary international search

Unitary patent

Unity of invention

Utility

Utility model

Utility patent

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Glossary of patent law terms

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