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Federal Circuit
Federal Circuit : a circuit that has nationwide jurisdiction over appeals or reviews of certain customs, trademark and patent cases (as actions for patent applications or patent interference), and claims against the U.S. from district courts or
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
Publication
to be publication of such works [s. 1 (3)] As only a new and original invention can be patented, publication before protection defeats the inventor's right to protection by patent, unless the publication be without the knowledge
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Ambiguity
from an extrinsic fact may be removed by extrinsic evidence.) Ambiguitas verborum patens nulla verificatione excluditur. Lofft, 249.--(A patent ambiguity cannot be cleared up by extrinsic evidence.)
Fairs
can be held without a grant from the Crown, or a prescription which supposes such grant. Before a patent is granted it is usual to have a writ of ad quod damnum executed and returned, that it
Specification
Specification, a particular and detailed account of a thing; also, a description of a patent with the object of putting the public in full possession of the inventor's secret, so that any person
estoppel
do so estoppel in pais : equitable estoppel in this entry file wrap·per estoppel : an estoppel in patent law barring an applicant who has acquiesced in the rejection of a broad claim in the application for
New article
bears a mark as defined in the Trade Marks Act, 1940, or which is the subject of a patent, if at the date of registration or issue of the licence or permission, as the case may be,
Letter-claus
Letter-claus (liter' claus'), close letter, so called in contradistinction to letters-patent, because the former is commonly sealed up with the royal signet, or privy seal; whereas letters-patent are left open and sealed with the broad seal.
Malta
and a Legislature; see (English) Malta Constitution Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 43), and Letters Patent, thereby validated, and the (English) Malta (Letters Patent) Constitution Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8,
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