the board of patent interferences
1Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences — The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) is a body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which decides issues of patentability. If an applicant for an invention cannot convince a patent examiner that they are… …
2Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences — Formerly known as the Board of Patent Appeals; consists of Commissioner of Patents, the Deputy Commissioner, the Assistant Commissioners, and the examiners in chief whose responsibility is to review adverse decisions of examiners upon… …
3Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences — Formerly known as the Board of Patent Appeals; consists of Commissioner of Patents, the Deputy Commissioner, the Assistant Commissioners, and the examiners in chief whose responsibility is to review adverse decisions of examiners upon… …
4Patent prosecution — describes the interaction between an applicant, or their representative, and a patent office with regard to a patent, or an application for a patent. Broadly, patent prosecution can be split into pre grant prosecution, which involves negotiation… …
5board — An official or representative body organized to perform a trust or to execute official or representative functions or having the management of a public office or department exercising administrative or governmental functions. Commissioners of… …
6board — An official or representative body organized to perform a trust or to execute official or representative functions or having the management of a public office or department exercising administrative or governmental functions. Commissioners of… …
7List 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… …
8United States Patent and Trademark Office — The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual… …
9Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office — Decisions of the first instances of the European Patent Office (EPO) can be appealed, i.e. challenged, before the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, in a judicial procedure (proper to an administrative court), as opposed to an administrative procedure …
10United States patent law — was established to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution of the United …
