Patent Terms Glossary
Control No.
Definition:
Unique number assigned to a patent reexamination request when it is filed, having a 2-digit series code for ex parte reexamination requests and a 6-digit control number.
Information Disclosure Statement (IDS)
Definition:
A list of all patents, publications, U.S. applications, or other information submitted for consideration by the Office in a non-provisional patent application filed under 35 U.S.C. § 111(a) to comply with applicant's duty.
Patent Infringement
Definition:
Unauthorized making, using, offering to sell, selling or importing into the United States any patented invention.
Design Patent
Definition:
A type of patent covering the shape characteristics of an object
USPTO
Definition:
United States Patent and Trademark Office, designation became effective April 3, 2000; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.
Annex F
Definition:
Written specifications of the application-body document type definition agreed to by the USPTO, WIPO, EPO, and JPO.
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For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins with the date of the grant and usually ends 20 years from the date you first applied for the patent subject to the payment of appropriate maintenance fees. Design patents last 14 years from the date you are granted the patent. Note: Patents in force on June 8 and patents issued thereafter on applications filed prior to June 8, 1995 automatically have a term that is the greater of the twenty year term discussed above or seventeen years from the patent grant.
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