Patent Terms Glossary
Invention
Definition:
Any art or process (way of doing or making things), machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be patentable.
Contracting Party
Definition:
A country or intergovernmental organization that is a member of the Madrid Protocol.
EFS-ABX
Definition:
Electronic Filing System – Application Body eXtensible Markup Language authoring tool.
Author
Definition:
Writer of an article, chapter or other complete work.
DRM
Definition:
Data reference model - also known as a "data and information reference model" - describes the data and information that support program and line operations.
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.
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