United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent and trademark protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions and corporate and product identification. The PTO is currently based in Alexandria, Virginia, after a recent move from the Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia. Since 1991, the office has been fully funded by fees charged for processing patents and trademarks. The current head of the USPTO is Under Secretary ...

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• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Mission
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Fee diversion
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patents
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Representation
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patent attorney agent registration
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Filing a patent yourself
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Criticisms
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Controversial patents
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Slow patent examination

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United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patent attorney agent registration. The PTO only allows certain qualified persons to practice before the PTO, which includes the filing of patent applications on behalf of inventors, the prosecuting patent applications on behalf of inventors, and participating in administrative appeals and other proceedings before the PTO examiners and boards. The PTO sets its own standards for who may practice and requires that any person who practices become registered. An USPTO-registered non-attorney professional is called ...

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United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Mission, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Fee diversion, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Representation, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patent attorney agent registration, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Filing a patent yourself, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Criticisms, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Controversial patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office - Slow patent examination

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In the United States, admission to the bar is permission granted to a lawyer to practice law. Since courts in the U.S. make no distinction between barristers and solicitors, all lawyers are "admitted to the bar". In nearly all states, admission to the bar requires that the candidate pass three hurdles: The candidate must first earn a Juris Doctor from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association; The candidate must be certified by the appropriate body (often the state bar association) as having the goo ...

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• Admission to the bar - General requirements for admission
• Admission to the bar - Law schools not accredited by the ABA
• Admission to the bar - Admission without law school education
• Admission to the bar - Admission of foreign-educated lawyers
• Admission to the bar - Integrated bar
• Admission to the bar - Practice before state appellate courts
• Admission to the bar - Federal district and courts
• Admission to the bar - United States Supreme Court
• Admission to the bar - United States Tax Court
• Admission to the bar - Patent law
• Admission to the bar - Technical education requirements

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A bar examination is an series of tests conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction. Bar examination - United States. Bar examinations in the United States of America are generally administered by agencies of state governments-- the exception being the case of bar examinations that a person must pass as a requirement before being admitted to engage in the specialized practice of law before certain particular government agencies, such a ...

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• Bar examination - United States
• Bar examination - Arguments against the bar examination
• Bar examination - Arguments for the bar exam in place of law school
• Bar examination - Preparation for the bar examination
• Bar examination - England and Wales

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Perpetual motion refers to a condition in which work is done with an unknown energy source. Perpetual motion machines (the Latin term perpetuum mobile is not uncommon) are a class of hypothetical machines which would produce useful energy in a way which would violate the established laws of physics. It is generally accepted that perpetual motion machines cannot work. Specifically, perpetual motion machines would violate either the first or second laws of thermodynamics. Perpetual motion machines are divided into t ...

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• Perpetual motion - Basic principles
• Perpetual motion - Classification
• Perpetual motion - Just how impossible is impossible?
• Perpetual motion - Thought experiments
• Perpetual motion - Techniques
• Perpetual motion - Inventions and patents
• Perpetual motion - Perpetual motion in pop culture

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Biopiracy refers to the privatization and unauthorized use of biological resources by entities (including corporations, universities and governments) outside of a country which has pre-existing knowledge. This privatization and use is sometimes claimed to be predatory. Particular activities usually covered by the term are: Exclusive commercial rights to plants, animals, organs, microorganisms, and genes; Commercialization of traditional communities' knowledge on biological resources; Patenting of biologi ...

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• Biopiracy - A possible biopiracy scenario
• Biopiracy - Results
• Biopiracy - Historical background / CBD 1992
• Biopiracy - Research costs and benefit sharing
• Biopiracy - Ownership of plants animals and human genes
• Biopiracy - Preventing biopiracy
• Biopiracy - Advocacy
• Biopiracy - Source

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Anti-gravity is a hypothetical means of countering or otherwise modifying the effects of gravity, typically in the context of spacecraft propulsion. Such systems are limited to the realm of science fiction given the current understanding of the way gravity works, but this has not stopped legions of hopefuls from making various spinning disks and magnets in hopes of perfecting such a device. Anti-gravity - Anti-gravity in the context of mainstream physics. Newton's Law of Gravitation cons ...

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• Anti-gravity - Anti-gravity in the context of mainstream physics
• Anti-gravity - Conventional effects that look like anti-gravity
• Anti-gravity - Anti-gravity in the context of non-mainstream physics

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Chrono Cross (クロノ・クロス Kuronu Kurosu） is a PlayStation RPG created by Square Co., Ltd. (now Square Enix) with a story that builds upon Chrono Trigger. However, Chrono Trigger team members Hironobu Sakaguchi (Supervisor), Yuji Horii (Supervisor, Initial Scenario Writer), and Akira Toriyama (Character Design) were notably not a part of the Chrono Cross development team. Indeed, few of the original staff participated on the game as they had ...

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• Chrono Cross - Plot
• Chrono Cross - Characters
• Chrono Cross - White innate characters
• Chrono Cross - Black innate characters
• Chrono Cross - Red innate characters
• Chrono Cross - Blue innate characters
• Chrono Cross - Green innate characters
• Chrono Cross - Yellow innate characters
• Chrono Cross - Returning characters
• Chrono Cross - Character Relationships
• Chrono Cross - Music
• Chrono Cross - Awards/Ratings
• Chrono Cross - Packaging artwork

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The United Kingdom Patent Office is the UK government agency responsible for maintaining registers of intellectual property including designs, patents and trade marks in the United Kingdom. The UK Patent Office is located in Newport, South Wales but, for historical reasons, docments relating to UK Patent Office matters can also be filed in a small branch office in London, England. In the UK, as in most countries (bar the odd exception) there is no general statutory register of copyright. Therefore, the U ...

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• United States patent law - Legislations
• United States patent law - Patent-related decisions
• United States patent law - Other

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The X-Patents are all the patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from July 1790 (when the first U.S. patent was issued), to July 1836. The actual number is unknown, but 9,957 is the most accurate estimate. They were burned in a fire, in December 1836, while in temporary storage. No copies or rosters were maintained by the government at the time, leaving only the inventors' copies to reconstruct the collection. X-Patent - The USPTO and its earliest days. The Patent Commission of the ...

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• X-Patent - The USPTO and its earliest days
• X-Patent - The 1836 fire
• X-Patent - Recovery of the X-Patents
• X-Patent - A list of some X-Patents

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Jeans are trousers made from denim. Originally work clothes, they became popular among teenagers starting in the 1950s. Historic brands include Levi's and Wrangler. Today Jeans are a very popular form of casual dress around the world. Jeans - History. Jeans were first created in Genoa, Italy when the city was an independent Republic and a naval power. The first jeans were made for the Genoese Navy because it required all-purpose trousers for its sailors that could be worn wet or dry, and whose legs could ea ...

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• Jeans - History
• Jeans - Jeans in popular culture
• Jeans - Blue Jeans
• Jeans - Lowrise Jeans
• Jeans - Brands
• Jeans - Fits
• Jeans - Types
• Jeans - Law

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Fair use History of copyright law Idea-expression dichotomy History of patent law Patentability Sufficiency of disclosure Patent infringement Trademark dilution Trademark registration Database rights Mask work Plant breeders' rights Supplementary protection certificate (SPC) Traditional knowledge A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state t ...

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• Patent - Economic rationale and criticisms
• Patent - Legal implementation
• Patent - Example
• Patent - Governing laws
• Patent - Patent prosecution
• Patent - Patentable subject matter
• Patent - Novelty
• Patent - Inventive step and non-obviousness
• Patent - Term of patent
• Patent - Example
• Patent - Miscellaneous
• Patent - History of patents
• Patent - Patent models
• Patent - Legal concepts
• Patent - Special types of patents and patent applications
• Patent - Organizations and patent offices
• Patent - Treaties conventions and other legal texts and frameworks
• Patent - Other

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A uniform is a set of standard clothing worn by members of an organisation whilst participating in that organisation's activity. People performing religious activities have often worn standard costumes since the dawn of recorded history. Other early examples of uniforms include the clothing of the armies of the Roman Empire and other civilizations. Modern uniforms are worn by armed forces and paramilitary organisations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates in p ...

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• Uniform - Service and work uniforms
• Uniform - Schools
• Uniform - Sports
• Uniform - Security and armed forces
• Uniform - Prison
• Uniform - Servants

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Some models of anti-gravity claim to derive from general relativity. The model of gravity proposed by the theory of general relativity breaks down under extreme conditions (too far inside a black hole, and in the very early life of the universe under the big bang model). In particular, most physicists believe that at extremely high energies, gravity and the other fundamental forces unify, which would allow gravity to be manipulated in ways that are not readily apparent now. Candidate models for this regime are theories of everyt ...

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Anti-gravity, Anti-gravity - Anti-gravity in the context of mainstream physics, Anti-gravity - Conventional effects that look like anti-gravity, Anti-gravity - Anti-gravity in the context of non-mainstream physics

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Typically, an application for a patent is prepared by a professional agent known as a patent attorney or patent agent, who files the application with a patent office. The person applying for a patent generally does not need to be the inventor who created or authored the invention. However, in the United States a patent application must be filed in the name of the actual inventor or inventors, although the application can be assigned to another party, such as the employer of the inventor. At the patent office an examiner will consider ...

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Patent, Patent - Economic rationale and criticisms, Patent - Legal implementation, Patent - Example, Patent - Governing laws, Patent - Patent prosecution, Patent - Patentable subject matter, Patent - Novelty, Patent - Inventive step and non-obviousness, Patent - Term of patent, Patent - Example, Patent - Miscellaneous, Patent - History of patents, Patent - Patent models, Patent - Legal concepts, Patent - Special types of patents and patent applications, Patent - Organizations and patent offices, Patent - Treaties conventions and other legal texts and frameworks, Patent - Other

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In the early 1930s, the U.S. was in the depths of the Great Depression. Without the money to purchase new goods, freight trains weren't hauling as much as they had in the previous decade. People who couldn't buy goods also couldn't afford to travel to the extent that they had before, so passenger revenues were also down. Even if they did have the money to travel, the equipment that railroads were using to carry passengers hadn't changed much since the middle of the 19th century. Railroads needed a way to re-energize the tra ...

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Pioneer Zephyr, Pioneer Zephyr - Concept and construction, Pioneer Zephyr - Promotion: Dawn-to-Dusk dash, Pioneer Zephyr - Regular revenue service, Pioneer Zephyr - Use in film, Pioneer Zephyr - Legacy: Preservation and static display and namesakes, Pioneer Zephyr - Models of the Pioneer Zephyr

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United States patent law - Concepts. Assignor estoppel Continuing patent application Design patent Information disclosure statement (IDS) Interference proceeding Non-obviousness Non-provisional patent application Novelty On-sale bar Petition to make special Prosecution history estoppel Provisional application Reduction to practice Reissue application Small entity status Soft ...

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United States patent law, United States patent law - Related topics, United States patent law - Concepts, United States patent law - Legislations, United States patent law - Patent-related decisions, United States patent law - Other

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The spork is a physical manifestation of the "runcible spoon" mentioned in the Edward Lear poem "The Owl and the Pussycat", re-moulded by the science of modern materials. Sporks have been manufactured since at least the late 1800's. The Folgate Silver Plate Company of England manufactured one sometime between 1875 and 1900. In the United States, various patents for sporks and proto-sporks have been issued over the years. A combined spoon, fork, and knife closely resembling the modern spork was invented by S. W. Francis and issued U.S. ...

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Spork, Spork - Etymology, Spork - History of the spork, Spork - Rumors, Spork - Materials and uses

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Target Corporation's discount retail chain in the United States has 1,400 stores in 47 states (excluding Alaska, Hawaii, and Vermont) that operate under the mastheads of Target, Target Greatland, and SuperTarget. The first Target store opened in 1962 in Roseville, Minnesota. That store was closed and demolished on January 8, 2005 to make room for a SuperTarget. Target Corporation has aggressive plans to have 2,010 stores open by ...

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Target Corporation, Target Corporation - History, Target Corporation - Retailing division: Target Stores, Target Corporation - Target, Target Corporation - Target Greatland, Target Corporation - SuperTarget, Target Corporation - Urban stores, Target Corporation - Distribution centers, Target Corporation - Differentiation, Target Corporation - Philanthropy, Target Corporation - Criticisms, Target Corporation - Target Australia, Target Corporation - Diversity, Target Corporation - Major sponsorships, Target Corporation - Notes and references

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