Patent Terms Glossary

CIP

Definition:
Continuation-in-Part - an application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the earlier nonprovisional application.

Administrative Instructions

Definition:
Set out the provisions and requirements in relation to the filing and processing of the international (patent) application under the PCT.

Citation Counts

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

Affidavit

Definition:
A signed statement putting appropriate facts or opinions on record.

Informal Application

Definition:
An application that has been filed without one or more of the elements required to receive a filing date. The USPTO will return informal applications to applicants.

Abandon

Definition:
The explicit or implicit relinquishment of a potential patent right. Simple inaction may render a patent right abandoned

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