Patent Terms Glossary
Intellectual property
Definition: Intellectual property refers to creations — including inventions, artistic works, names and designs — that are legally protected. Intellectual property includes patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets
CIP
Definition: Continuation-in-Part - an application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the earlier nonprovisional application.
Patent Application Publication
Definition: Pre-Grant Publication of patent application at 18 months from priority date.
Citation
Definition: the examiner or author may make Citations
Status
Definition: The legal standing of a patent or patent application, i.e. whether it is pending, lapsed or still protected etc.
Restriction
Definition: If two or more independent and distinct inventions are claimed in a single application, the examiner may require the applicant to elect (designate) a single invention to which the claims will be restricted.
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