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Inventor:
If the inventor is dead, insane, or otherwise legally
incapacitated, refuses to execute an application, or cannot be found, an
application may be made by someone other than the inventor.
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Unfair Competition: A legal action addressing different forms of competition that
illegally interfere with the legitimate commercial interests of
competitors in the marketplace. It covers such diverse activities as
passing off, false advertising, commercial disparagement,
misappropriation, trademark dilution, trademark infringement and theft
of trade secrets. The modern-day legal action for “unfair
competition” has developed from the common-law action for “unfair
competition” that sought relief against a competitor because of
misrepresentation of the source of goods or services. |
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Unity Of Invention: An international and a national
stage application shall relate to one invention only or to a group of
inventions so linked as to form a single general inventive concept
("requirement of unity of invention"). Where a group of
inventions is claimed in an application, the requirement of unity of
invention shall be fulfilled only when there is a technical relationship
among those inventions involving one or more of the same or
corresponding special technical features. The expression "special
technical features" shall mean those technical features that define
a contribution which each of the claimed inventions, considered as a
whole, makes over the prior art.
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Useful
Invention: A patent application
must comply with the "useful invention" ("utility")
requirement of 35 USC 101 and 35 USC 112, first paragraph. A patent on
will not issue to a frivolous invention that has no use. |
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Utility:
An invention has a well-established utility if (i) a person of ordinary
skill in the art would immediately appreciate why the invention is
useful based on the characteristics of the invention (e.g., properties
or applications of a product or process), and (ii) the utility is
specific, substantial, and credible.
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Utility
Patent: May be granted to
anyone who invents or discovers any new, useful, and non-obvious
process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or
any new and useful improvement thereof.
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Utility Patent Application Transmittal Form: A Utility
Patent Application Transmittal Form (Form PTO/SB/05) or a transmittal
letter should be filed with every patent application to instruct the
USPTO as to what actual types of papers are being filed (e.g.,
specification, claims drawings, declaration, information disclosure
statement). It identifies the name of the applicant, the type of
application, the title of the invention, the contents of the
application, and any accompanying enclosures. (Form PTO/SB/21 is to be
used for all correspondence after initial filing.) |
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