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2. Provisional application - Wikipedia

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   Under U.S. law, a provisional application, as such, is never examined by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and therefore never becomes a patent on its own (unless the provisional patent application is later converted into a non-provisional patent application by the applicant, and then the application is examined as a non ...

3. Term of patent in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The original patent term under the 1790 Patent Act was decided individually for each patent, but "not exceeding fourteen years". The 1836 Patent Act (5 Stat. 117, 119, 5) provided (in addition to the fourteen-year term) an extension "for the term of seven years from and after the expiration of the first term" in certain circumstances, when the inventor hasn't got "a reasonable remuneration for ...

4. United States patent law - Wikipedia

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   Another unique feature of the US patent practice is a provisional patent application, which allows an inventor to establish a priority and gives them a year to improve on their invention before filing a complete (i.e. non-provisional) patent application.

5. A Patent Is Worth a Thousand Words - AOL

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   Patent-rich but cash-poor is no way to go through life, so Eastman Kodak (NYS: EK) is licensing some of its cinematic patents to multiplex super-sizer IMAX (NYS: IMAX) . Kodak is granting IMAX ...

6. Divisional patent application - Wikipedia

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   Before the European Patent Office (EPO), divisional applications can be filed under Article 76 EPC.A European divisional application is a new application which is separate and independent from the parent application unless specific provisions in the European Patent Convention (EPC) require something different.

7. First to file and first to invent - Wikipedia

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   The America Invents Act, signed by Barack Obama on 16 September 2011, [6] switched the U.S. right to the patent from a "first-to-invent" system to a "first-inventor-to-file" system for patent applications filed on or after 16 March 2013 and eliminated interference proceedings. [7]

8. Glossary of patent law terms - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law.A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial right to exclude others from commercially exploiting the invention, granted to an inventor or their successor in rights in exchange to a public disclosure of the invention.

9. Term of patent - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, for utility patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, the term of the patent is 20 years from the earliest filing date of the application on which the patent was granted and any prior U.S. or Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications from which the patent claims priority (excluding provisional applications). For patents ...