Patent Terms Glossary
Counterpart
Definition: An application filed in a foreign patent office that is substantially similar to (like) the patent application filed with the USPTO and is based upon some or all of the same invention.
Coinventor
Definition: An inventor who is named with at least one other inventor in a patent application, wherein each inventor contributes to the conception creation of the invention.
Author
Definition: Writer of an article, chapter or other complete work.
Invention
Definition: Any art or process (way of doing or making things), machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be patentable.
IB
Definition: International Bureau - the secretariat of the WIPO which, among other functions, centralizes information of various kinds relating to the protection of intellectual property.
Novelty
Definition: The concept that the claims must be totally new.
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