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11Patent Reform Act of 2005 — The Patent Reform Act of 2005 (USBill|109|H.R.|2795) was United States patent legislation proposed in the 109th United States Congress. Texas Republican Congressman Lamar S. Smith introduced the Act on 8 June 2005. [ Dennis Crouch,… …
12Patent Cooperation Treaty — The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under …
13File format — A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice …
14Patent — Ein Patent ist ein hoheitlich erteiltes gewerbliches Schutzrecht für eine Erfindung. Der Inhaber des Patents ist berechtigt, anderen die Benutzung der Erfindung zu untersagen. Das deutsche Wort wurde im 17. Jahrhundert aus dem französischen… …
15Patent — A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention.The procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patentee and the… …
16Patent attorney — A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing an opposition. The term… …
17Patent infringement — Patent law (patents for inventions) …
18File shadowing — There are several different technologies that use the term file shadowing , but the intent of file shadowing within these technologies is to provide an exact copy (or mirror of a set of data). For file shadowing to be effective, the shadow needs… …
19patent — patentable, adj. patentability, n. patentably, adv. patently, adv. /pat nt/ or, for 10, 12 15, /payt /; esp. Brit. /payt nt/, n. 1. the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain …
20Patent Act (Canada) — The Patent Act is the Canadian Act of Parliament that governs the patent law in Canada. It states what can be patented and how patents are to be obtained. The Patent Act also governs the Patent Office and limits the power and responsibility of… …
