Patent Terms Glossary
Term of patent
Definition: The maximum number of years that the monopoly rights conferred by the grant of a patent may last.
Home Copy
Definition: A copy of an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty maintained by the receiving Office where the international application was filed.
SMART
Definition: Standards, Mentor, Attempt, Review, Transition -- an informal development program used for USPTO's OCIO employees that identifies standards to work towards and establishes a mentoring relationship between managers and their employees who must meet these s
Bio-sequence Listings
Definition: A document that must be included only if a nucleotide or amino acid sequence is part of the invention.
Beilstein
Definition: A major structure and factual database in organic chemistry.
EFS-ABX
Definition: Electronic Filing System – Application Body eXtensible Markup Language authoring tool.
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