Patent Terms Glossary
Contracting State
Definition:
A national Office or an intergovernmental organization which is party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Parent Application
Definition:
The term "parent" is applied to an earlier application of the inventor disclosing a given invention.
Patent Family
Definition:
A patent family is the same invention disclosed by a common inventor(s) and patented in more than one country.
Claim
Definition:
The definition of the monopoly rights that the applicant is trying to obtain for the invention.
Invention
Definition:
Any art or process (way of doing or making things), machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be patentable.
PALM
Definition:
Patent Application Locating and Monitoring system - an internal USPTO system that is the source of status information displayed in PAIR .
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