Patent Defense definition

Patent Defense means the responsibility for defending any Patent against any Third Party invalidity challenges that are not included within Patent Prosecution, excluding any such invalidity challenges asserted as a defense in a proceeding to enforce such Patent.
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Patent Defense means the responsibility for defending any interference, declaratory judgment action, opposition, inter partes review, re-examination or similar action or proceeding alleging the invalidity, unenforceability or non-infringement of any Patent Right.
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Examples of Patent Defense in a sentence

  • All Patent Costs incurred by Lilly in connection with the Patent Defense of such Patent Rights shall be, as between the Parties, the sole responsibility of Lilly.

  • Precision may, at its own expense, join as a party to such Patent Defense Matter and be represented in any such action by counsel of its own choice.

  • In the event that Precision elects in writing to permit TGTX to conduct a Patent Defense Matter with respect to any Precision Patent, TGTX shall keep Precision reasonably informed of the status of such Patent Defense Matter and shall consider in good faith Precision’s comments thereon.

  • If Lilly decides to cease such Patent Defense with respect to any Sigilon Program Patent Right, Lilly Program Patent Right or Joint Patent Right, it shall inform Sigilon of such decision promptly and, in any event, so as to provide Sigilon a reasonable amount of time to meet any applicable deadline to defend or preserve such Patent Rights.

  • This Agreement supersedes and replaces the Patent Defense Agreement and the Patent Defense Agreement shall have no further force or effect after the Amendment Effective Date.

  • Aduro shall cooperate with and assist Lilly in all reasonable respects, in connection with Lilly’s Patent Defense activities.

  • TGTX shall provide Precision with drafts of all material papers and statements to be filed in connection with such Patent Defense Matter in sufficient time to allow Precision to review, consider and substantively comment thereon, and shall in good faith consider all reasonable comments thereto by Precision before filing such papers or statements.

  • In the event that Precision (or Precision’s designee, as applicable) elects not to conduct a Patent Defense Matter with respect to a Precision Patent, Precision may, in Precision’s sole discretion, elect to permit TGTX to conduct such Patent Defense Matter, at TGTX’s sole cost and expense.

  • Sigilon shall cooperate with and assist Lilly in all reasonable respects, in connection with Lilly’s Patent Defense activities.

  • Lilly shall be responsible for the Patent Defense of Lilly Patent Rights, Aduro Patent Rights, and Joint Patent Rights.

Related to Patent Defense

  • Patent Rights means all patents and patent applications, including all divisionals, continuations, substitutions, continuations-in-part, re-examinations, reissues, additions, renewals, extensions, registrations, and supplemental protection certificates and the like of any of the foregoing.

  • Licensee Patents means any Patents within the Control of Licensee as of the Effective Date and at any time during the Term relating to the Product.

  • Program Patents has the meaning set forth in Section 7.1.2.

  • Collaboration Patents means any and all Patents that claim or cover any of the Collaboration Know-How.

  • Licensed Patents means (a) all United States patents and patent applications listed in Exhibit A, as modified pursuant to Section 2.6.1, including patents arising from such patent applications; and (b) any re-examination certificates thereof, and their foreign counterparts and extensions, continuations, divisionals, and re-issue applications; provided that “Licensed Patents” will not include any claim of a patent or patent application covering any Manufacturing Technology.

  • Collaboration Patent Rights means Patent Rights claiming Collaboration Know-How.

  • Product Patents means any and all United States patents and patent applications, all divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, re-issues, extensions or foreign counterparts thereof, now or hereafter owned or controlled ("controlled" being used in the sense of having the right to grant licenses thereunder) by PERIMMUNE, covering the manufacture, use, sale, offer for sale and/or importation of the Product, including but not limited to, the U.S. Patent No. 5,407,912 attached hereto as Exhibit B.

  • Patent Right means: (a) an issued or granted patent, including any extension, supplemental protection certificate, registration, confirmation, reissue, reexamination, extension or restoration by existing or future extension or restoration mechanisms (including, without limitation, supplementary protection certificates or the equivalent thereof), or renewal thereof; (b) a pending patent application, including any continuation, divisional, continuation-in-part, substitute or provisional application thereof; and (c) all counterparts or foreign equivalents of any of the foregoing issued by or filed in any country or other jurisdiction.

  • Program Patent Rights means any Patent Rights that contain one or more claims that cover Program Inventions.

  • Licensed Patent Rights means: (a) Patent applications (including provisional patent applications and PCT patent applications) or patents listed in Appendix A, all divisions and continuations of these applications, all patents issuing from these applications, divisions, and continuations, and any reissues, reexaminations, and extensions of these patents; (b) to the extent that the following contain one or more claims directed to the invention or inventions disclosed in 2.9(a): (i) continuations-in-part of 2.9(a); (ii) all divisions and continuations of these continuations-in-part; (iii) all patents issuing from these continuations-in-part, divisions, and continuations; (iv) priority patent application(s) of 2.9(a); and (v) any reissues, reexaminations, and extensions of these patents; (c) to the extent that the following contain one or more claims directed to the invention or inventions disclosed in 2.9(a): all counterpart foreign and U.S. patent applications and patents to 2.9(a) and 2.9(b), including those listed in Appendix A; and (d) Licensed Patent Rights shall not include 2.9(b) or 2.9(c) to the extent that they contain one or more claims directed to new matter which is not the subject matter disclosed in 2.9(a).

  • Patent Applications means all published and unpublished nonprovisional and provisional patent applications, reexamination proceedings, invention disclosures and records of invention, applications for certificates of invention and priority rights, in any country and regardless of formal name, including without limitation, substitutions, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, renewals, revivals, reissues, re-examinations and extensions thereof.

  • Joint Patent Rights means Patent Rights that contain one or more claims that cover Joint Technology.

  • Third Party Technology means all Intellectual Property and products owned by third parties and licensed pursuant to Third Party Licenses.

  • Joint Patents means all Patents claiming any Joint Invention.

  • Public defender means a federal public defender, county

  • Patent Prosecution means the responsibility and authority for (a) preparing, filing and prosecuting applications (of all types) for any Patent, (b) paying, filing and maintenance fees relating to any Patent, (c) managing any interference, opposition, re-issue, reexamination, revocation, nullification, or cancellation proceeding relating to the foregoing, (d) deciding to abandon Patent(s) and (e) settling any interference, opposition, revocation, nullification or cancellation proceeding.

  • Infringement has the meaning set forth in Section 6.3(a).

  • Valid Patent Claim means a claim of the Licensed Patents that has not lapsed or become abandoned or been declared invalid or unenforceable by a court or agency of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal can be or is taken.

  • Patent Family means all patents and patent applications that share a common priority application, excluding continuations in part, but including any divisionals, continuations, reissues, reexaminations, extensions, foreign counterparts or equivalents. For the avoidance of doubt, if any patent or patent application is subject to a terminal disclaimer with any other patent or patent application such patent or patent application and such other patent or patent application shall be deemed one (1) Patent Family for the purposes of this Agreement.

  • Patent Application means an application for patent protection for a CRADA Subject Invention with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“U.S.P.T.O.”) or the corresponding patent-issuing authority of another nation.

  • Third Party Infringement has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1.

  • Collaboration Technology means all Collaboration Patents and Collaboration Know-How.

  • Company Patents means Patents owned by the Company or used or held for use by the Company in the Business.

  • Product Infringement has the meaning set forth in Section 9.4(a).

  • Prosecution means, with respect to a Patent, preparing, filing, prosecuting and maintaining such Patent, including any interference and opposition proceedings, reissue, post-grant reviews, inter partes review, re-examination and applications for patent term extensions, and all appeals or petitions to any agency, board or court related to any of the foregoing. When used as a verb, “Prosecute” means to engage in Prosecution.

  • Licensed Patent means Stanford's rights in U.S. Patent Application, Serial Number , filed , any foreign patent application corresponding thereto, and any divisional, continuation, or reexamination application, extension, and each patent that issues or reissues from any of these patent applications. Any claim of an unexpired Licensed Patent is presumed to be valid unless it has been held to be invalid by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal can be or is taken. “Licensed Patent” excludes any continuation-in-part (CIP) patent application or patent.