Patent Terms Glossary
CIP
Definition:
Continuation-in-Part - an application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the earlier nonprovisional application.
OG - Patents
Definition:
Official Gazette eOG:P - weekly publication of the USPTO that permits you to browse issued patents and view important notices.
Abandonment
Definition:
A patent application becomes abandoned for failure to file a complete and proper reply as the condition of the application may require within the time period.
Combination Patent
Definition:
A patent granted for an invention that unites existing components in a novel way.
Divisional Application
Definition:
A later application for an independent or distinct invention disclosing and claiming (only a portion of and) only subject matter disclosed in the earlier or parent application.
Patentable
Definition:
Suitable to be patented; entitled by law to be protected by the issuance of a patent.
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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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