Helpful Terms and Definitions
Inventor
Definition:
one who contributes to the conception of an invention. The patent law of the United States of America requires that the applicant in a patent application must be the inventor.
International Preliminary Examination Report
Definition:
Is a preliminary and non-binding opinion on whether the invention claimed in an international application appears to be novel, to involve an inventive step (to be non-obvious), and to be industrially applicable.
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 under the patent laws of the United States.
Parent Application
Definition:
The term "parent" is applied to an earlier application of the inventor disclosing a given invention.
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