facultative certificate (fak-[schwa]l-tay-tiv).Insurance. A contract of reinsurance separately negotiated to cover risks under a single insurance policy. • Facultative reinsurance allows the reinsurer the “faculty” of assessing and possibly rejecting a particular risk (esp. if underwriting information is inadequate). [Cases: Insurance 3605. C.J.S. Insurance § 1504.]
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notice of prior-art references. Patents. Notification from a patent examiner of the previously issued patents used in rejecting one or more of the applicant’s claims.
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ignoring, n. Family law. A parent’s or caregiver’s pattern of depriving a child of essential intellectual or emotional stimulation or of otherwise stifling emotional growth and intellectual development, essentially by being unavailable. Cf. ISOLATING; REJECTING.
double patenting. 1. Obtaining two patents covering the same invention. • An inventor is not allowed to receive more than one patent on one invention. — Also termed same-invention double patenting. [Cases: Patents 120.] 2. The issuance or obtaining of a patent for an invention that differs from an already patented invention only in some