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United States Patent and Trademark Office
Industria: Legal services
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A registered patent attorney/agent is assigned a registration number that they must include on patent correspondence and forms when representing others before the USPTO; individual applicants do not have a registration number and should leave this field blank on patent forms.
Industry:Legal services
The national Office or intergovernmental organisation of or acting for the Contracting State elected by the applicant under Chapter II of the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Industry:Legal services
A request by the holder of an international trademark registration for an extension of protection of the registration to additional Contracting Parties.
Industry:Legal services
The owner of record of a patent application, patent, trademark application or trademark registration who is transferring (assigning) ownership to another entity (assignee)
Industry:Legal services
A request filed in an application in which prosecution is closed (e.g., the application is under final rejection or a notice of allowance) that is filed to reopen prosecution and continue examination of the application
Industry:Legal services
The period between the date the examining attorney approves the mark for publication and the date of issuance of the Notice of Allowance. The applicant may not file an Allegation of Use during this period.
Industry:Legal services
A self-addressed, stamped postcard with itemised list of parts of patent application and number of pages per MPEP 503; used as a receipt for what was submitted in an application
Industry:Legal services
The right of the patent owner to bring an infringement suit against a party who, without permission, makes, uses or sells the claimed invention. The period of enforceability of a patent is the length of the term of the patent plus the six years under the statute of limitations for bringing an infringement action.
Industry:Legal services
A sworn document, filed by the owner of a registration, to avoid the expiration of a registration.
Industry:Legal services
The secretariat of the WIPO which, among other functions, centralises information of various kinds relating to the protection of intellectual property.
Industry:Legal services