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21EU patent — European patent law …
22Term of patent in the United States — In the United States, under current patent law, the term of patent, provided that maintenance fees are paid on time, are:* For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995 [ [http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/2700… …
23Public participation in patent examination — The involvement of the public in patent examination has been proposed and is currently used in some forms to help identifying relevant prior art and, more generally, to help assessing whether patent applications and inventions meet the… …
24Submarine patent — is an informal term for a patent first published and granted long after the initial application was filed. In analogy to a submarine, its presence is unknown to the public; it stays under water , i.e., unpublished, for long periods, then emerges …
25List of patent claim types — This is a list of special types of claims that may be found in a patent or patent application. For explanations about independent and dependent claims and about the different categories of claims, i.e. product or apparatus claims (claims… …
26Glossary of patent legal concepts — Patent law (patents for inventions) …
27List of United States patent law cases — This is a list of patent law cases in the United States from 1878 to 2007.Early cases*City of Elizabeth v. American Nicholson Pavement Co. 1878. Prior use does not include experimental use. *Egbert v. Lippmann 1881. Held that public use of an… …
28Software patent debate — is the argument dealing with the extent to which it should be possible to patent software and computer implemented inventions as a matter of public policy. Policy debate on software patents has been active for years. [Cite book |last=Nichols… …
29Official Journal of the European Patent Office — The Official Journal of the European Patent Office is a monthly trilingual publication of the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains notices and information of a general character issued by the President of the European Patent Office, as well… …
30Community patent — The Community patent, also known as the European Community Patent or EC patent and sometimes abbreviated as COMPAT, European Commission, Internal Market, [http://ec.europa.eu/internal market/smn/smn42/docs/patents en.pdf Stakeholders debate… …
