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.
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.
Term of patent
Definition:
The maximum number of years that the monopoly rights conferred by the grant of a patent may last.
Pro Se
Definition:
Used to designate an independent inventor who has elected to file an application by themselves without the services of a licensed representative.
Generic Term
Definition:
Terms that the relevant purchasing public understands primarily as the common or class name for the 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.
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