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    Patent Terms Glossary

    Patent Applications Supplemental Register

    Definition:
    Secondary trademark register for the USPTO. It allows for registration of certain marks that are not eligible for registration on the Principal Register, but are capable of distinguishing an applicant’s goods or services.

    USPTO

    Definition:
    United States Patent and Trademark Office, designation became effective April 3, 2000; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.

    Interference

    Definition:
    A proceeding, conducted before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), to determine priority of invention between a pending application.

    Current Filing Basis

    Definition:
    In applications under §§1 and 44 of the Trademark Act, the applicant may claim more than one basis, and may add or substitute a basis after filing the application.

    Author

    Definition:
    Writer of an article, chapter or other complete work.

    Coinventor

    Definition:
    An inventor who is named with at least one other inventor in a patent application, wherein each inventor contributes to the conception creation of the invention.

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