Patent Terms Glossary

Representative

Definition:
One who stands for or acts on behalf of another. A patent attorney or patent agent may represent the inventors named in a patent application.

Utility Patent

Definition:
May be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new, useful, and nonobvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.

C1

Definition:
Phase I (IDdb). Initial toxicity testing in healthy volunteers

Patent Infringement

Definition:
Unauthorized making, using, offering to sell, selling or importing into the United States any patented invention.

IC

Definition:
International Class - class(es) assigned to a mark under the International Classification of Goods and Services (Nice Agreement); used in the United States since 1 September 1973

Application (trademark)

Definition:
A document by which a person requests a federal trademark registration. To receive a filing date, an application must include the applicant's name, a name and address for correspondence and the application filing fee.

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