Patent Terms Glossary

Affidavit

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

Applicant

Definition:
An application for patent filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) that includes all types of patent applications (i.e., utility, design, plant, and reissue) except provisional applications.

Patent

Definition:
A property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States.

File Wrapper

Definition:
The folder into which papers for a particular application are collected and maintained. It contains a complete record of proceedings in the USPTO from the filing of the initial patent application to the issued patent.

Collective Mar

Definition:
A trademark or service mark used, or intended to be used, in commerce, by the members of a cooperative, an association, or other collective group or organization, including a mark that indicates membership in a union, an association, or other organization

Madrid Protocol

Definition:
The "Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks" is an international treaty that allows a trademark owner to seek registration in any of the countries.

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