Patent Terms Glossary

Assignee

Definition:
The entity that is the recipient of a transfer of a patent application, patent, trademark application or trademark registration from its owner of record.

Informal Application

Definition:
An application that has been filed without one or more of the elements required to receive a filing date. The USPTO will return informal applications to applicants.

Disclosure

Definition:
The first public disclosure of details of an invention

Interference

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

Defensive publication

Definition:
A publication and disclosure to the public of a pending patent application.

Attorney

Definition:
An individual who is a member in good standing of the bar of any United States court or the highest court of any State.

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