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2 A little bit more about the patent contents
2.3 Description (how it works)
- 1 Basic Concepts 6
- 2 A little bit more about the patent contents 6
- 3 Examination Process 8
- 4 Searching 4
- 5 Jurisprudence 3
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6 Patent Terms
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- A posteriori
- A priori
- Abandonment
- Abstract
- Abuse of patent/Patent Misuse
- Affidavit
- Alice Corp. v CLS bank
- Allowance
- Amazon one-click case
- Amendment after allowance
- Ante
- Anticipation
- Art
- Article 19 amendments(PCT)
- Article 34 amendments(PCT)
- Assignment
- Balance of Probabilities
- Benefit of the doubt
- Board of Appeals and Patent Interferences (BAPI) (US only)
- Boards of Appeal (EPO)
- Bona fide
- Budapest Treaty
- Business method
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
- Case law
- Cease and Desist
- Claim
- Claim construction
- Claim date
- Classification
- Classification Search
- Co-applicant
- Co-inventor
- Commissioner's decisions (Canada)
- Common general knowledge
- Common inventor
- Composition of matter
- Compulsory licensing
- Conterminus
- Continuation (US)
- Continuation in part(CIP) (US)
- Contracting states(EPO)
- Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
- Copyright
- Country code
- CPC search
- Cross license
- de facto
- defendant
- deferred examination
- Delphion
- Demand
- Dependent claim
- Deposition
- Description
- Design patents (US only)
- Designated Office
- Disclaimer
- Disclosure
- Discovery
- Divisional Application
- Docket
- Doctrine of Equivalents
- Doctrine of repair and reconstruction (US)
- Double Patenting
- Drawing
- Due Diligence
- Effective filing date (US only)
- Elected Office
- Embodiment
- Enablement
- EP register
- EPOQUE
- Erratum
- Espacenet
- Et al.
- European CLAssification (ECLA)
- European Patent Bulletin
- European Patent Convention
- European Patent Office (EPO)
- Ex parte
- Exclusive license
- Expired patent
- Extension states
- F-term classification
- Federal court of appeal of Canada (FCA)
- Federal court of Canada (FCC)
- FI classification
- File Wrapper
- Filing date
- Final Action
- Final fee
- First to File
- First to invent
- Gazette
- Global Dossier
- Grace Period
- Grant Date
- Harvard Mouse
- Impeachment
- Incorporate by reference
- Independent claim
- Industrial Applicability
- Industrial design
- Information Disclosure Statement(IDS)(US)
- Infringe by inducement
- Infringement
- Injunction
- Intellectual property (IP)
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
- Inter alia
- Interference proceedings (USPTO)
- Interim Injunction
- Interlocutory injunction
- International application
- International Bureau
- International depositary authority
- International filing date
- International Patent Classification (IPC)
- International Patent Documentation (INPADOC)
- International Preliminary Examination Authority (IPEA)
- International Preliminary Report on Patentability (IPRP)
- International Search Authority (ISA)
- International Search Report (ISR)
- Inventive concept
- Inventive ingenuity
- IP5
- IPC search
- Issue Date
- Japan Patent Office (JPO)
- Jepson claims
- Joint application
- Jurisprudence
- Keyword Search
- Kind code
- Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)
- Laid open
- Lapse
- Latin Words
- Legal representative
- License agreement
- Licensee
- LOC classification
- Maintenance fee
- Markush claims
- Master Classification Database (MCD)
- Method of medical treatment
- Micro entity (USPTO)
- MOPOP (Canada)
- Mosaic
- New matter
- Non-exclusive license
- Non-Final Action(US)
- Non-Patent Literature
- Nonprovisional application (US)
- Notice of abandonment(USPTO)
- Notice of allowability(USPTO)
- Notice of allowance
- Notice of Appeal
- Notice of Compliance (NOC) (Canada)
- Novelty
- Nucleotide sequence
- Obiter dictum
- Obviousness
- Office Action
- Office of Earlier Examination (OEE)
- Office of Later Examination (OLE)
- Omnibus claim
- Oral Disclosure
- Parent patent/patent application
- Paris Convention
- Patent
- Patent Act
- Patent Appeal Board (PAB) (Canada)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- Patent Examination/prosecution
- Patent examiner
- Patent family search
- Patent litigation
- Patent pending
- Patent Prosecution
- Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)
- Patent Rules
- Patent term
- Patent term extension
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) (US)
- Patent Troll
- Patentability
- Patentable Subject Matter
- Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (Canada)
- PatentScope
- PCT Chapter I
- PCT Chapter II
- Per se
- Permanent injunctio
- Perpetual injunction
- Person skilled in the art
- Petition
- Plaintiff
- Plant patent (US)
- Precedent
- Prima facie
- Prior Art
- Prior art search
- Priority date
- Private inventor
- Protest
- Provisional application(US)
- Publication date
- Purposive Construction
- Questel Orbit
- Ratio decidendi
- Re-examination
- Re-examination board
- Read On
- Receiving Office
- Reinstate
- Reissue
- Reissue board
- Reissue patent
- Relevant date
- Reproducibility
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) (US)
- Request for examination (RE)
- Revocable license
- Sanofi test (Canada)
- Scintilla
- Scope of protection
- Search strategy
- Semantic search
- Sequence Listing
- Shift of invention
- Small entity
- Sound prediction Doctrine (Canada)
- Specification
- State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO)
- State of the art
- status quo
- Statutory subject matter
- Substantive Examination
- Substitute Application
- Supplementary International Search (SIS)
- Supplementary International Search Authority
- Supreme court of Canada
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Suspension
- Swiss type claims
- Syntax search
- The Gillette Defense
- The Sachharin Doctrine
- Title
- TotalPatent
- Trade secret
- Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
- Trademark
- Transferable license
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)
- United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
- United States Patent Classification (USPC)
- Unity
- US pair
- Utility
- Utility model
- Validity
- Vancouver group
- Verbatim
- WO-IPEA
- World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO)
- World patent index
- Written opinion (WO)
- “A” documents (PCT)
- “E” documents (PCT)
- “L” documents (PCT)
- “O” documents (PCT)
- “P” documents (PCT)
- “T” documents (PCT)
- “X” documents (PCT)
- “Y” documents (PCT)
2.3 Description (how it works)
The description of an invention provides detailed information that enables a person skilled in the art to construct and use the invention. If the description does not provide enough information to enable public to make or use the invention, a patent will not be awarded because the inventor does not fulfill his/her end of promise in exchange of the exclusive rights.
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