patent information documents
1Information Retrieval Facility — The Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), founded 2006 and located in Vienna, Austria, is a research platform for networking and collaboration for professionals in the field of information retrieval.The IRF has members in the following categories …
2Patent troll — is a pejorative but questioned term used for a person or company who is a non practicing inventor, and buys and enforces patents against one or more alleged infringers in a manner considered by the target or observers as unduly aggressive or… …
3patent search — A search of all existing or publicly available information to determine whether an invention is new (novel) and whether persons with ordinary skill in the field could have deduced it (nonobvious). A patent search usually begins with a review of… …
4Patent 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… …
5Information disclosure statement — An information disclosure statement (often abbreviated as IDS) refers to a submission of relevant background art or information to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by an applicant for a patent during the patent prosecution… …
6Patent 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… …
7Patent Lens — The Patent Lens is an online patent search service, by CAMBIA, an independent, international non profit organisation. It allows free searching of over 8 million documents, including United States patents and applications, Australian patents and… …
8Patent Commons — The Patent Commons Project was launched on November 15, 2005 by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). The core of the project is an online patent commons reference library aggregating and documenting information about patent related pledges… …
9Information science — Not to be confused with Information theory. Contents 1 Introduction 2 A multitude of information sciences? 3 Definitions of information science 4 History …
10Software 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… …
