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1Patent pending — This article is about patents. For the band, Patent Pending, see Patent Pending (band). For the Heavens album, see Patent Pending (album).The expressions patent pending (sometimes abbreviated by pat. pend. or pat. pending ) or patent applied for… …
2Continuing patent application — Under United States patent law, a continuing patent application is a patent application which follows, and claims priority to, an earlier filed patent application. A continuing patent application may be one of three types: a continuation,… …
3Patent application — A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for the invention described and claimed by that application. An application consists of a description of the invention (the patent specification ), together… …
4Provisional application — Under United States patent law, a provisional application for patent is a type of national application for patent filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), but which does not mature into an issued patent unless further steps …
5patent pending — n. A notice placed on an object informing others that its inventor has applied for a patent on it and is awaiting the government’s decision. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell.… …
6Mobile application development — is the process by which application software is developed for small low power handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. These applications are either pre installed on phones during… …
7Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's Application — [cite BAILII litigants=Aerotel Ltd v Telco Holding Ltd and others, and Neal William Macrossan s application court=EWCA division=Civ year=2006 num=1371 date=2006 10 27] is a judgment by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The judgment was… …
8Divisional patent application — A divisional patent application (sometimes referred to as a divisional application or simply a divisional) is a type of patent application which contains matter from a previously filed application (the so called parent application). Whilst a… …
9patent pending — The status of an invention between the time a patent application is filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the time it is granted or rejected. Marking a product patent pending or pat. pending may deter potential competitors from… …
10provisional patent application — (PPA) An interim patent application that provides the inventor with an early filing date for the invention. It does not replace a regular patent application, but it does confer patent pending status on the invention and may help the inventor… …
