double patenting
11Business (General) — Business General adminisphere aerotropolis bads BAM boomsayer booth bunny borrow brains Buns of Steel …
12patent cliff — n. A sharp drop in revenue that a company experiences when a lucrative patent expires. Example Citations: Lilly is already facing the biggest patent cliff in the industry. Five of its six leading products face generic competition in the next four …
13patent troll — (PAT.unt trohl) n. A company that purchases a patent, often from a bankrupt firm, and then sues another company by claiming that one of its products infringes on the purchased patent.. adj. patent trolling pp. Example Citations: These patent… …
14six degrees patent — n. The informal name sometimes applied to a patent for a network database and system used in some social networking sites. Example Citations: Abrams wasn t concerned that Pincus and Hoffman would overtake Friendster when they struck out on their… …
15Opposition procedure before the European Patent Office — The opposition procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO) is a post grant, contentious, inter partes, administrative [1] procedure intended to allow any European patent to be centrally opposed. European patents granted by the EPO under the …
16Continuing 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,… …
17Divisional 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… …
18Manual of Patent Examining Procedure — MPEP redirects here. For the drug, see 2 Methyl 6 (phenylethynyl)pyridine. The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) is published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for use by patent attorneys and agents and patent… …
19MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. — MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. Supreme Court of the United States Argued October 4, 2006 Decided …
20Crime — 419 scam acoustic terrorism Adlai Stevenson moment aftercrimes age fraud Apple picking appraisal mill a …
