Patent Terms Glossary
Appeal (trademark)
Definition:
An applicant who wants to contest a final refusal from an examining attorney may file an appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
C2
Definition:
Phase II (IDdb). Small-scale testing in the target population, to assess therapeutic effects and to establish dose levels for phase III trials.
Boolean
Definition:
The patent search systems use "AND", "OR", and "ANDNOT" as Boolean operators, in combination with parentheses to build nested logical subsets.
Cancellation Proceeding
Definition:
A proceeding before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in which The plaintiff seeks to cancel an existing registration of a mark.
Doctrine Of Equivalents
Definition:
A judicially created theory for finding patent infringement when the accused process or product falls outside the literal scope of the patent claims.
Claim
Definition:
The definition of the monopoly rights that the applicant is trying to obtain for the invention.
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