Patent Terminology

Using correct patent terminology means that one should say that dependent claims depend from another claim and not on. We are not really sure why this convention is used, but if you want to sound really smart and patent savvy, make sure you follow this convention whenever possible. 

The European patent equivalent to the nonobviousness requirement in the United States is referred to as the inventive step requirement. Although the terminology is different, the overall effect is generally the... 

We know that getting answers to patent questions can be difficult. Many times the same question can yield different responses, the answers often mysteriously cloaked in vague and shifting terminology. This book cannot provide you with all of your answers, but we hope it will at least provide you with a better place to start. If you enjoy reading this book at least half as much as we ve enjoyed writing it, then we ll consider this project a great success. 

Toulmin (58) classifies types of patent searches as preliminary, prior art, infringement, validity, combined infringement and validity, index, and assignment searches. Some other authors use a slightly different terminology, but the meaning adds up to the same thing. 

Classification, as exemplified by the system employed by the United States Patent Office, groups together in fixed compartments items having certain common features. In the Patent Office classification, the subject matter of the patent is analyzed by the classifier in terms of the features on which the classification system is built. Terminology ranging from the highly generic, e.g., carbon compounds, toys, medicines, poisons, and... 

Conventional classification uses terminology to establish and define classes, subclasses, and sub-subclasses. Distinction between a broad class and narrower subclass may be made by using progressively less generic terms as in the example cited from the U. S. Patent Office classification (9). 

The abstracts of the Journal of the Textile Institute 28 are very convenient, once the user has become accustomed to the slight differences in terminology—for example, an important index heading is Manufactured Fibers." These abstracts have annual subject, name, and patent number indexes. 

Anon. Markush or Generic Structures. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1991 31(1) 1. A brief summary of the conceptual basis of generic chemical structures in patents and the terminology used in discussing it. Written as an introduction to a special issue of the journal devoted to the use of Markush structures in the patent literature and the databases that allow searching of Markush structures. 

In the patent literature, the terminology destructurized starch [46-65] refers to a form of thermoplastic starch described as molecularly dispersed [56]. Destracturization of starch is defined as melting and disordering of the molecular structure of the starch granules as a molecular dispersion [55,56]. It means that, at the same time, the native crystallinity of starch... 

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (7) has developed a family of products which are stated to be a coreactive blend of triazine resin (terminology used to describe bisphenol A dicyanate and its prepolymers) and a bismaleimide resin. Properties of these resins are described in patents (8) and product literature (7). End uses suggested include electronic encapsulation, printed wiring board and structural composites. 

For more information on yarn terminology and definitions of textiles terms, the reader is referred to the Textiles Intelligence glossary of textiles terms (http //www.textilesintelligence.com/glo/). For more information on specific yarn formation processes discussed in the previous sections, the reader is referred to the specific publications or patents as cited. 

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