Tag: Patent

  • Expiry Date

    Expiry Date in E.U. Patent SystemThe date when a patent has run its full term in a country and is no longer protected there (see alsoLapse, Withdrawn).

  • Expiry Date

    Expiry Date in E.U. Patent SystemThe date when a patent has run its full term in a country and is no longer protected there (see alsoLapse, Withdrawn).

  • Term

    Term of patent in E.U. Patent SystemThe maximum number of years that the monopoly rights conferred by the grant of a patent may last.

  • Term

    Term of patent in E.U. Patent SystemThe maximum number of years that the monopoly rights conferred by the grant of a patent may last.

  • Disclosure

    Introduction to DisclosureDisclosure, act of revealing information that is secret or would normally be confidential." (1)ResourcesNotes and ReferencesInformation about "http://lawin.org/encarta-encyclopedia/" title="Microsoft Encarta Online …

  • Disclosure

    Introduction to DisclosureDisclosure, act of revealing information that is secret or would normally be confidential." (1)ResourcesNotes and ReferencesInformation about "http://lawin.org/encarta-encyclopedia/" title="Microsoft Encarta Online …

  • Paris Convention

    Known formally as the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, an international agreement formulated to protect rights to industrial property including inventions, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and appellations of origin. The substantive provisions of the convention […]

  • Forfeit

    Forfeited Application in E.U. Patent SystemAn application on which the issue or maintenance fee has not been paid within the designated period.

  • Division

    Division in Constitutional LawFrom the Comparative Constitutions Project: By divisions, we mean something that is uniform throughout the constitution, not subsections that only appear sporadically.

  • Examiner

    Examiner in E.U. Patent SystemA patent office official who is appointed to determine the patentability of applications.

  • Kinds

    Kinds in E.U. Patent SystemThe letter, often with a further number, indicating the level of publication of a patent. For example DE-A1 is the German Offenlegungsschrift (application laid open for public inspection) while a DE-C1 is the German Patentschrift (first publication of the granted patent).

  • Equivalent

    Equivalent in E.U. Patent SystemA patent entering the Derwent system which relates to the same invention and shares the same priority application as a patent from a different issuing authority already held in Derwent World Patents Index (see also non-convention equivalent).

  • Renewal

    Spanish Translation of renewal [of insurance]This is the legal translation of English to Spanish in relation to renewal [of insurance] and / or a definition of this topic: Renovación del Seguro (in Spanish, without translation of the dictionary entry).

  • Invent

    First to Invent in E.U. Patent SystemIn some countries, the applicant who is the first to invent will be awarded the patent over all others.

  • Specification

    Specification in E.U. Patent SystemThe description, drawings and claims of an invention prepared to support a patent application. The term does not imply that the invention is necessarily new or was ever protected.