Patent Terms Glossary
CD
Definition:
A type of form designation such as Form CD435, meaning a Commerce Department form.
Patent Family
Definition:
A patent family is the same invention disclosed by a common inventor(s) and patented in more than one country.
eTEAS
Definition:
Electronic Trademark Examination Application System - electronic trademark filing system. It allows the public to complete various trademark filings and transactions on-line.
Contracting Party
Definition:
A country or intergovernmental organization that is a member of the Madrid Protocol.
ISA
Definition:
International Search Authority - either a national Office or an intergovernmental organization whose tasks include the establishment of documentary search reports on prior art with respect to inventions.
Inventor
Definition:
Inventor names are recorded for all patents.
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For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins with the date of the grant and usually ends 20 years from the date you first applied for the patent subject to the payment of appropriate maintenance fees. Design patents last 14 years from the date you are granted the patent. Note: Patents in force on June 8 and patents issued thereafter on applications filed prior to June 8, 1995 automatically have a term that is the greater of the twenty year term discussed above or seventeen years from the patent grant.
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