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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States. The USPTO's headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia, after a 2005 move from the Crystal City area of neighboring Arlington, Virginia.
On 5 June 2013, the USPTO and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced the launch of a pilot project in which KIPO will [needs update] classify some of its patent documents using the CPC system. [8] [9] The project has been said to mark a major step towards KIPO classifying all of its patent collection using the CPC. [9]
Among other things, the value of Ke and the Cost of Debt (COD) [6] enables management to arbitrate different forms of short and long term financing for various types of expenditures. Ke applies most prominently to companies that regularly generate excess capital (free cash flow, cash on hand) from ongoing operations.
The United States Patent Classification is an official patent classification system in use and maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). It was mostly replaced by the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) on January 1, 2013. [1] Plant and design patents are still classified solely within USPC at the USPTO.
Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. This includes new types of e-commerce, insurance, banking and tax compliance etc. Business method patents are a relatively new species of patent and there have been several reviews investigating the appropriateness of patenting business methods.
The foundry aims to build a contract manufacturing business for other chip designers. Due to the sensitive, competitive intellectual property coming from clients into that business, separation is key.
Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) is an online service provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to allow users to see the prosecution histories of United States patents and patent applications and obtain copies of documents filed therein.
The family of a man who was murdered in Londonderry have said they have been "failed by the justice system" after his killer went on the run from prison again. An international police hunt is ...