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    Patent Terms Glossary

    Patent Applications 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.

    Reissue Application

    Definition:
    An application for a patent to take the place of an unexpired patent that is defective in one or more particulars.

    Withdrawn Patent

    Definition:
    An allowed application for patent in which the applicant files correspondence to withdraw the patent from issue; ;thus preventing it from issuing on the patent issue date. T

    Precautionary Designation

    Definition:
    Designation of a Contracting State in an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty which must be confirmed prior to 15 months from the priority date.

    Term of patent

    Definition:
    The maximum number of years that the monopoly rights conferred by the grant of a patent may last.

    Citation Counts

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    Citation counts are a formal acknowledgement of intellectual debt to earlier patents and previously published scientific research papers.

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