Patent Terms Glossary
Disclaimer
Definition: A patentee, whether of the whole or any sectional interest therein, may, on payment of the fee required by law, make disclaimer of any complete claim, stating therein the extent of their interest in such patent.
Claim
Definition: The definition of the monopoly rights that the applicant is trying to obtain for the invention.
ALC
Definition: Agency Location Code - an eight (8) digit code assigned to U.S. government agencies by the Department of Treasury.
OG
Definition: Official Gazette - weekly publication of the USPTO that includes regular and special notices of the Office.
PALM
Definition: Patent Application Locating and Monitoring system - an internal USPTO system that is the source of status information displayed in PAIR .
OACS
Definition: Office Action Correspondence System - used by patent examiners to generate office actions.
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For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins with the date of the grant and usually ends 20 years from the date you first applied for the patent subject to the payment of appropriate maintenance fees. Design patents last 14 years from the date you are granted the patent. Note: Patents in force on June 8 and patents issued thereafter on applications filed prior to June 8, 1995 automatically have a term that is the greater of the twenty year term discussed above or seventeen years from the patent grant.
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