Patent Terms Glossary
Common Law Rights
Definition:
Property or other legal rights that do not absolutely require formal registration in order to enforce them. Proving such rights for a trademark in court can be very difficult.
EFS-ABX
Definition:
Electronic Filing System – Application Body eXtensible Markup Language authoring tool.
Restriction
Definition:
If two or more independent and distinct inventions are claimed in a single application, the examiner may require the applicant to elect (designate) a single invention to which the claims will be restricted.
NPL
Definition:
Non Patent Literature -- documents and publications that are not patents or published patent applications but are cited as references for being relevant in a patent prosecution.
Boolean
Definition:
The patent search systems use "AND", "OR", and "ANDNOT" as Boolean operators, in combination with parentheses to build nested logical subsets.
Annex F
Definition:
Written specifications of the application-body document type definition agreed to by the USPTO, WIPO, EPO, and JPO.
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