Patents. The date that will determine which applicant in an interference proceeding will get a patent. • The priority date is also the cutoff date for prior art. In the United States the priority date is the date of invention; in the rest of the world it is the date on which the patent application […]
benefit of priority filing date. See BENEFIT OF AN EARLIER FILING DATE.
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benefit of an earlier filing date. Patents & trademarks. For a patent or trademark applicant, the advantage of being assigned the filing date of a related, earlier-filed application. • Under 35 USCA § 119: (1) a U.S. patent application is given the filing date of an earlier foreign application filed in accordance with the Paris
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Patents. The date that a patent application is considered to have been filed. • The actual filing date may be later, as for a continuing application. But under the doctrine of continuity, the child application is usu. entitled to the filing date of the parent application to prove priority. — Also termed parent filing date.
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Patent Cooperation Treaty. A 1970 treaty that streamlined the process of securing patents in multiple countries by establishing a single filing date and providing for a single preliminary patent search. • An inventor who wants to qualify for patents from several member countries files a standard application in one country, thus preserving the priority date,
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A treaty designed to unify and streamline patent prosecutions and trademark applications among the signatories. • The Convention eased the harsh effects of the first-to-file priority rule by allowing an applicant in any member country one year in which to apply in other member countries while maintaining the application’s original priority date. It also banned
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Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. A treaty designed to unify and streamline patent prosecutions and trademark applications among the signatories. • The Convention eased the harsh effects of the first-to-file priority rule by allowing an applicant in any member country one year in which to apply in other member countries while maintaining
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senior party. Intellectual property. In an interference proceeding, the first person to file an application for a property’s legal protection, e.g., an invention patent or a trademark registration. • In the United States, merely being the first to file does not entitle the party to the protection. The proceeding’s administrator also takes other factors into
Patents. The embodiment of the concept of an invention, either by physical construction and operation or by filing a patent application with a disclosure adequate to teach a person reasonably skilled in the art how to make and work the invention without undue experimentation. • The date of reduction to practice is critical in determining
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TRIPs.abbr. Patents. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, a treaty that harmonized and strengthened the intellectual-property laws of its signatories by linking the obligation to protect the intellectual-property rights of other members’ citizens with a mechanism for settling international trade disputes. • TRIPs was negotiated at the 1994 Uruguay Round of the