A mark owner’s written request, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for federal registration of a mark, accompanied by a sample of the mark to be protected and the filing fee. • The application may describe either an existing mark that is in use or a proposed mark. — Also termed servicemark application. […]
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Hist. An affidavit that lists — and seeks reimbursement from the opposing party for — the additional costs (above the filing fee and other basic fees charged by the court clerk) incurred by a party in taking a matter through trial. • Attorney fees, witness payments, and the like were included in this affidavit. See
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An inventor’s request for a patent, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and accompanied by a specification (ending with at least one claim), drawings, the filing fee, and (except for a provisional patent application) an oath or a declaration. [Cases: Patents 98.C.J.S. Patents §§ 137–139.]
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indigent (in-di-j[schwa]nt), n. 1. A poor person. 2. A person who is found to be financially unable to pay filing fees and court costs and so is allowed to proceed in forma pauperis. • The Supreme Court has recognized an indigent petitioner’s right to have certain fees and costs waived in divorce and termination-of-parental-rights cases.
trademark application. A mark owner’s written request, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for federal registration of a mark, accompanied by a sample of the mark to be protected and the filing fee. • The application may describe either an existing mark that is in use or a proposed mark. — Also termed
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juratory caution. 1. Maritime law. A court’s permission for an indigent to disregard filing fees and court costs. • A suit upon a juratory caution is the equivalent of a suit in forma pauperis. The right was first recognized in United States admiralty courts in Bradford v. Bradford, 3 F. Cas. 1129 (1878). See IN
certificate of bad faith. In a case in which a party has been allowed to proceed in a United States district court in forma pauperis, a document issued by the court attesting that an appeal by that party would be frivolous and therefore should not be allowed unless the party pays the ordinary filing fees
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Slang. A patent that is delayed in prosecution by the applicant in order to let an infringing user continue to develop its business, with the intention of taking in later-invented technology once the patent finally “surfaces” from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. • Typically, the patent applicant is aware of the developments and consciously
American Inventors Protection Act. Patents. A 1999 statute designed to (1) curb deceptive practices by inven-tion-promotion companies, (2) reduce patent fees, (3) provide a defense against infringement for a party who in good faith reduced a patented invention to practice at least one year before a patent’s effective filing date, (4) extend the patent term
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greenmail. 1. The act or practice of buying enough stock in a company to threaten a hostile takeover and then selling the stock back to the corporation at an inflated price. 2. The money paid for stock in the corporation’s buyback. Cf. BLACKMAIL(1); FEEMAIL; GRAYMAIL. 3. A shareholder’s act of filing or threatening to file