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Intellectual Property Glossary

AFCP	Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
Allowance (patent)	Obviousness
Amendment (patents)	Official Gazette
Anticipation	Patent
Assignment (Copyright)	Patent application
Attorney-Client Privilege	Patent Cooperation Treaty
Best Mode	Patent Drawings (amending)
Board of Appeals	Patent Infringement
C.A.F.C.	Patent Infringement: Contributory
C.F.R.	Patent Infringement: Indirect
Cease and Desist letter	Patent Marking
Certification mark	Patent Misuse
CIP Patent Application	Patent Pending
Claim	Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)
Claim Chart	Patent Troll
Clearance Search	Patent: Track I Accelerated Examination
Collective Mark	Patent: Types
Common law trademarks	Patents for Humanity
Compilations (Copyright)	Prejudgment interest
Composition of Matter	Preliminary Injunction
Conception	Presumption of Validity
Continuation in Part (CIP)	Prior art
Copyright	Prosecution
Deceptive Trademarks	Prosecution History Estoppel
Declaratory Judgment lawsuit	Provisional Patent Application
Deferred Prosecution (Patents)	PTO
Design Patent	Publications
Design Patent Accelerated Examination	Reduction to practice
Divisional application	Reexamination
Domain Name Dispute Resolution	Registered Patent Attorney
Domestic Representative (Trademarks)	Request For Continued Examination
Double Patenting	Restriction requirement
Enablement	Right To Use Search
Ensnarement Defense (patents)	Service Mark
Estoppel	Small Entity
Examiner	Specification
Examiner's Action	Specimen
Expiration of Patent	Status Identifers (patent amendments)
Fair Use (copyright)	Statute of Limitations
False Advertising (Lanham Act)	Statutory Bar
False Patent Marking	Statutory invention registration
Famous Trademark Factors (Federal)	Statutory Subject Matter
Famous Trademark Factors (Florida)	Summary Judgment
Federal Circuit	Terminal Disclaimer
First Action Interview Program	TESS
Formal drawings	The Paris Convention
Functional Claim (patent)	TMEP
Generic Misspellings (Trademark)	Trade Secret
Inequitable Conduct (Patents)	Trademark
Information Disclosure Statement	Trademark Registration Benefits
Intellectual Property	Trademark Registration Symbol
Interference	Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)
Interstate commerce	Trademark: Counterfeiting
Invention	Trademark: Infringement
Inventor/Mechanic Agreement	Trademarks: Anti-Trafficking in ITU Applications
Inventor's Notebook	Trademarks: Likelihood of Confusion (11th Cir.)
Knock-out reference	Trademarks: Likelihood of Confusion (8th Cir.)
Laches	Trademarks: Supplemental Register (benefits)
License	Trademarks: Supplemental Register (limitations)
Maintenance Fee	U.S.C.
Means Plus Function (patent claims)	Unified Patent Court
Mechanic	Visual Artist Rights Act
Merely Descriptive	Willful infringement
Missing Parts Pilot	Work for Hire (Copyright)
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