Patent Terms Glossary
Joint Application
Definition: An application in which the invention is presented as that of two or more persons.
LIE
Definition: Legal Instruments Examiner - a position classification for USPTO employees charged with docketing cases and other administrative processing that support the workflow and examination of applications.
SMART
Definition: Standards, Mentor, Attempt, Review, Transition -- an informal development program used for USPTO's OCIO employees that identifies standards to work towards and establishes a mentoring relationship between managers and their employees who must meet these s
Basic Patent
Definition: The first published patent
Classification of Goods and Services
Definition: Goods and services are classified by an international system, according to international treaties to which the United States is a signatory.
Bio-sequence Listings
Definition: A document that must be included only if a nucleotide or amino acid sequence is part of the invention.
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