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    Patent Terms Glossary

    Patent Applications ABM

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    Activity based management - a management methodology that combines ABC with business process analysis techniques to run, improve and measure performance for a business.

    Assignee

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    The entity that is the recipient of a transfer of a patent application, patent, trademark application or trademark registration from its owner of record.

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    The date of receipt in the Office of an application which includes (1) a specification containing a description and, if the application is a nonprovisional application, at least one claim, and (2) any required drawings.

    USPTO

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    United States Patent and Trademark Office, designation became effective April 3, 2000; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.

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    A proceeding, conducted before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), to determine priority of invention between a pending application.

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    Protect works of authorship, such as writings, music, and works of art that have been tangibly expressed. The Library of Congress registers copyrights which last for the life of the author plus 70 years.

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