Helpful Terms and Definitions
Patent Family
Definition:
A patent family is the same invention disclosed by a common inventor(s) and patented in more than one country.
Patent
Definition:
legal grant issued by a government permitting an inventor to exclude others from making, using, or selling a claimed invention during the patent's term.
Interference
Definition:
A proceeding, conducted before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), to determine priority of invention between a pending application and one or more pending applications and/or one or more unexpired patents.
International Bureau
Definition:
The secretariat of the WIPO which, among other functions, centralizes information of various kinds relating to the protection of intellectual property.
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