species claim
A claim that is limited to a single apparatus, process, composition of matter, or article of manufacture, rather than to a range of similar and related items. Cf. generic claim.
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generic claim
A claim that encompasses a class of elements, any of which could function as equivalents. • For a generic claim to be valid, the specific elements it encompasses must have a definable feature in common that makes them fit for the purpose. — Also termed genus claim. Cf. species claim.
election of species
A patent applicant’s choice of one alternative over others after an examiner determines that a generic claim is not allowable.
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third opposition
third opposition. Civil law. A species of intervention, usu. in a real-property case, in which the third party asserts a claim of ownership or other real right to seized property, and the claim does not depend on the outcome of the original suit between the plaintiff and the defendant. La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 1092.