Helpful Terms and Definitions
Priority Foreign Country
Definition:
Official U.S. designation that describes the level of intellectual property problems in a given country; countries having the most serious intellectual property problems are designated as Priority Foreign Countries.
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 or importing the invention into the United States.
USPTO
Definition:
United States Patent and Trademark Office, designation became effective April 3, 2000; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
Change Of Name
Definition:
Sometimes, owners of trademark applications and registrations change their names, even though the actual ownership of the application or registration has not been transferred.
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