Patent Terms Glossary
Application Number (patent)
Definition:
The unique number assigned to a patent application when it is filed. The application number includes a two digit series code and a six digit serial number.
CIP
Definition:
Continuation-in-Part - an application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the earlier nonprovisional application.
C1
Definition:
Phase I (IDdb). Initial toxicity testing in healthy volunteers
Nonprovisional Patent Application
Definition:
An application for patent filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) that includes all patent applications (i.e., utility, design, plant, and reissue) except provisional applications.
Novelty
Definition:
The concept that the claims must be totally new.
Author
Definition:
Writer of an article, chapter or other complete work.
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