Patent Terms Glossary
OACS
Definition:
Office Action Correspondence System - used by patent examiners to generate office actions.
EFS-ABX
Definition:
Electronic Filing System – Application Body eXtensible Markup Language authoring tool.
First to invent
Definition:
In some countries, the applicant who is the first to invent will be awarded the patent over all others.
Beilstein
Definition:
A major structure and factual database in organic chemistry.
Pro Se
Definition:
Used to designate an independent inventor who has elected to file an application by themselves without the services of a licensed representative.
Intellectual Property
Definition:
Creations of the mind - creative works or ideas embodied in a form that can be shared or can enable others to recreate, emulate, or manufacture them.
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