Patent Terms Glossary
Substitute Patent Application
Definition: An application which is in essence a duplicate of a prior (earlier filed) application by the same applicant abandoned before the filing of the substitute (later filed) application.
DTD
Definition: Document type definition - a format specification file that accompanies documents prepared according to SGML (standard generalized markup language), including XML (extensible markup language).
Electronic File Wrapper
Definition: System that provides a way to access electronic copies of the correspondence, documents and other pertinent records used in considering a particular case.
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.
Generic Term
Definition: Terms that the relevant purchasing public understands primarily as the common or class name for the goods or services.
Declaration
Definition: A document in which an applicant for patent declares, under penalty of fine or imprisonment, or both (18 USC 1001), that he or she is the original or sole inventor.
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