Patent Terms Glossary
Design Patent
Definition: A type of patent covering the shape characteristics of an object
Inventor
Definition: Inventor names are recorded for all patents.
Informal Application
Definition: An application that has been filed without one or more of the elements required to receive a filing date. The USPTO will return informal applications to applicants.
Assignee
Definition: The entity that is the recipient of a transfer of a patent application, patent, trademark application or trademark registration from its owner of record.
Benefit Claim
Definition: The claiming by an applicant in a nonprovisional application of a benefit of an invention disclosed in a prior-filed copending provisional or nonprovisional application designating.
Annex F
Definition: Written specifications of the application-body document type definition agreed to by the USPTO, WIPO, EPO, and JPO.
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