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Patent office, means the patent office referred to in section 74. [The PatentsAct, 1970, s. 2(r)]...
Letters-patent, or letters overt
Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the sovereign, sealed with the Great Seal of England, whereby a person or public company is enabled to do acts or enjoy privileges which he or it could not do or enjoy without such authority. They are so called because they are open with the seal affixed and ready to be shown for confirmation of the authority thereby given. Peers are sometimes created by letters-patent, and letters-patent of precedence were granted to barristers. By letters-patent aliens are made denizens, and especially new inventions are protected; hence the incorporeal chattel of patent-right.A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone shall be entitled, during a limited period, to make Articles according to his own invention--Statute of Monopolies, 21 Jac. 1, c. 3.To be the subject of a patent-right an article must be material and capable of manufacture, an i...
Comptroller
Comptroller, one who observes and examines the accounts of collectors of public money; an officer of the royal household; also the Comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade-marks, who has the immediate control of the Patent Office under the superintendence and direction of the Board of Trade. See the (English) Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932. The 1907 Act sets out (ss. 73-76) the powers and duties of the Comptroller....
Law Officers of the Crown
Law Officers of the Crown, shortly termed 'Law Officers,' the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, this definition was contained in s. 93 of the (English) Patents and Designs Act, 1907, but deleted by the (English) Patents and Designs Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 32), s. 13 and Sch. Consult Norton-Kyshe's Attorney-General and Solicitor-General of England.The Scottish Law Officers are the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor-General (q.v.)....
Petty-bag Office
Petty-bag Office, an office belonging to the Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for suits for and against solicitors and officers of that Court, and for process and proceedings by extents on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnum scire facias to repel letters-patent, etc., Termes de la Ley. The term is derived from the little bag (parva baga) in which original writs relating to the business of the Crown were anciently kept.By the Great Seal Offices Abolition Act, 1884, s. 5, provision was made for the abolition of the office of Clerk of the Petty Bag, and the transfer of his duties, and in 1888, the last holder of the office dying, it ceased to exist.The Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery is now transferred to the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 18(2)(b)], replacing (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 16).Pew [fr. puye, Dut.; appui, Fr.], an enclosed seat in a church. It is some what in the nature of an heirloom, and may descend by immemorial ...
file wrapper
file wrapper : a written record in a patent office of the application and negotiations for a patent preceding the issuance of the patent see also file wrapper estoppel at estoppel ...
office action
office action A letter from a trademark examining attorney from the USPTO, setting forth the legal status of a trademark application. There are several types of Office actions: examiner's amendments, priority actions, non-final Office actions, final Office actions, and suspension inquiry letters. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
patent
patent [Anglo-French, from Latin patent- patens, from present participle of patēre to be open] 1 a : open to public inspection see also letters patent at letter b : secured or protected by a patent [a nonexclusive license to produce and sell the product] [sought to enforce her rights against infringement] 2 : of, relating to, or concerned with the granting of patents esp. for inventions [a lawyer] [involved in litigation] 3 : readily seen, discovered, or understood [a defect] [if no bad faith or abuse is ] compare latent pat·ent·ly adv [pat-nt] n 1 : an official document conferring a right or privilege : letters patent at letter 2 a : the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention or products made by an invented process that is granted to an inventor and his or her heirs or assigns for a term of years see also intellectual property at property compare copyright, trademark NOTE: A patent may be granted for a process, act, or method t...
Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1874
Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38Vict. c. 81. This Act makes provision for the abolition of various offices connected with the Great Seal; such as those of the Messenger of the Great Seal, Clerk of the Petty Bag, Clerk f the Patents, and Purse-bearer to the Lord Chancellor....
Patent
Patent, means a patent granted under this Act. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (m)]The effect of the grant of a patent is quid pro quo, quid is the knowledge disclosed to the public and quo is the monopoly granted for the term of the patent. S. 12 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1911 sets out that a patent once granted confers on the patentee the exclusive privilege of making, selling and using the invention throughout India and of authorising others so to do. This is the quo. The quid is compliance with the various provisions resulting in the grant of the patent, Raj Parkash v. Mangat Ram Choudhary, AIR 1978 Del 1.Means a grant of some privilege, property, or authority, made by the Government or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals, Aphali Pharmaceuticals Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2227 (2235): (1989) 4 SCC 378....
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