EXAMINER-IN-CHIEF

examiner-in-chief. Hist. Patents. 1. A member of the quasi-judicial body in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that formerly heard appeals of interference decisions and patent-application rejections. 2. (pl. cap.) The body comprising those members; the predecessor of the Board of Appeals, the Board of Patent Interferences, and the present-day Board of Patent Appeals and […]