Patent Proceeding definition

Patent Proceeding means any opposition, re-issue, and re-examination, and any contested case, including inter-partes review, post-grant review, interference, derivation or similar proceedings.
Patent Proceeding means any opposition, re-issue or re-examination, or any contested case, including inter partes review, post-grant review, interference, derivation or similar proceeding.
Patent Proceeding means any proceeding before a patent office related to the post-grant review of any Patent Right, including any post-grant proceeding brought pursuant to the America Invents Act (such as any inter partes review, post-grant review, opposition, interference, re-examination), or any foreign equivalent thereof. Any appeal, action, or proceeding related to a Patent Right that is brought before any court of competent jurisdiction will be deemed a “Patent Proceeding”; provided that prosecution activities including any ex parte examination and ex parte re-issue examination, appeal of ex parte patent prosecution decisions to a court or a board of a patent office, or supplemental examination before the U.S. Patent Office will not be considered a “Patent Proceeding.”

Examples of Patent Proceeding in a sentence

  • Xxxxxxx will provide Licensee with written notice as soon as practicable before initiating any Patent Proceeding relating to a Patent for which Xxxxxxx is responsible for prosecuting and maintaining under Section 7.2 (Filing, Prosecution and Maintenance of Patents).

  • Each Party has the right to [***], provided that, with respect to a Patent Proceeding for a Primary TARP8 Patent (other than a Xxxxxxx-Prosecuted TARP8 Patent) after the Option Exercise Date, the foregoing shall not apply and Licensee shall have sole decision-making authority with respect to any such Patent Proceeding.

  • Licensee will provide Xxxxxxx with written notice as soon as practicable before initiating any Patent Proceeding relating to a Patent for which Licensee is responsible is responsible for prosecuting and maintaining under Section 7.2 (Filing, Prosecution and Maintenance of Patents).

  • Each Party will promptly notify the other Party but in any case, within [***] of learning of any request for, or filing or declaration of, any Patent Proceeding relating to any Primary TARP8 Patent (other than a Xxxxxxx-Prosecuted TARP8 Patent) or Joint Patent.

  • Xxxxxxx will have the sole right to respond to and control any Patent Proceeding with respect to any Xxxxxxx-Prosecuted TARP8 Patent, Xxxxxxx Reserved TARP8 Patent, Licensed TARP8 Patent (other than any Joint Patent) or Licensed nACh Assay Patent.

  • In connection with any Patent Proceeding relating to a Primary TARP8 Patent (other than a Xxxxxxx-Prosecuted TARP8 Patent) or Joint Patent, Licensee and Xxxxxxx will cooperate fully and will provide each other with any information or assistance that either Party may reasonably request.

  • Licensee and Xxxxxxx will thereafter consult and cooperate fully to determine a course of action with respect to any such Patent Proceeding, provided that, unless otherwise agreed by the Parties in writing, Licensee shall have the sole right to respond to and control any Patent Proceeding with respect to any Primary TARP8 Patent (other than a Xxxxxxx-Prosecuted TARP8 Patent) after the Option Exercise Date.


More Definitions of Patent Proceeding

Patent Proceeding is defined in Section 11.6.
Patent Proceeding has the meaning set forth in Section 13.4.

Related to Patent Proceeding

  • 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.

  • Lawsuit means any lawsuit, arbitration or other dispute resolution filed by either party herein pertaining to any of this Warrant, the Facility Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement.

  • Regulatory Proceeding means a request for information, civil investigative demand, or civil proceeding commenced by service of a complaint or similar proceeding brought by or on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, or any federal, state, local or foreign governmental entity in such entity’s regulatory or official capacity in connection with such proceeding.

  • Patent Challenge means a challenge to the validity, patentability, enforceability and/or non-infringement of any of the Licensed Patents or otherwise opposing any of the Licensed Patents.

  • Infringement Action has the meaning set forth in Section 9.6(b).

  • Joint Patent means a Patent that claims a Joint Invention.

  • Complaint Investigation means an investigation of any complaint that has been made to a proper authority that is not covered by an abuse investigation.

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

  • Patent Right means: (a) an issued or granted patent, including any extension, supplemental protection certificate, registration, confirmation, reissue, reexamination, extension 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.

  • Litigation means any action, suit or proceeding before any court, mediator, arbitrator or Governmental Authority.

  • Joint Patents means all Patents claiming Joint Inventions.

  • Litigation Claims means the claims, rights of action, suits or proceedings, whether in law or in equity, whether known or unknown, that any Debtor or any Estate may hold against any Person or Entity, including, without limitation, the Causes of Action of the Debtors or their Estates, in each case solely to the extent of the Debtors’ or their Estates’ interest therein. A non-exclusive list of the Litigation Claims held by the Debtors as of the Effective Date will be Filed with the Plan Supplement, which will be deemed to include any derivative actions filed against any Debtor as of the Effective Date.

  • Complaint means any formal written complaint raised by a Contracting Body in relation to the performance of this Framework Agreement or any Call-Off Contract in accordance with Clause 44 (Complaints Handling and Resolution);

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

  • Patent Rights means the rights and interests in and to issued patents and pending patent applications (which, for purposes of this Agreement, include certificates of invention, applications for certificates of invention and priority rights) in any country or region, including all provisional applications, substitutions, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, renewals, all letters patent granted thereon, and all reissues, re-examinations and extensions thereof, and all foreign counterparts of any of the foregoing.