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.
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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.
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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.”
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Examples of Patent Proceeding in a sentence

  • If in the Apotex Territory, (a) either Party becomes aware of any actual, threatened or suspected infringement of any Licensed Patent Right, or (b) any Licensed Patent Right is challenged in any action or proceeding (other than any Patent Proceeding, which is addressed in Section 11.2 (Patent Proceedings) below), then such Party will notify the other Party promptly, and following such notification, the Parties will confer.

  • If Apotex decides it is no longer interested in controlling a Patent Proceeding pertaining to Licensed Patent Rights, then it will promptly provide written notice to Coherus of such decision.

  • Coherus may, upon written notice to Xxxxxxx, assume control of such Patent Proceeding.

  • Apotex will not voluntarily abandon or admit that any claim of any Licensed Patent Rights involved in a Patent Proceeding is unpatentable, invalid or unenforceable without the advance, written consent of Xxxxxxx (not to be unreasonably withheld).


More Definitions of Patent Proceeding

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

  • 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.

  • dispute resolution proceeding ’ means any process in which an alternative means of dispute resolution is used to resolve an issue in controversy in which a neutral is appointed and specified parties participate;

  • 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.

  • Joint Patent Rights means all Patent Rights claiming a Joint Invention.

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

  • Licensed Patent Rights means:

  • Joint Patents means all Patents claiming Joint Inventions.

  • Complaint means any dissatisfaction expressed by a Complainant orally or in writing to HMO about any aspect of HMO’s operation, including, but not limited to:

  • Protective proceeding means a judicial proceeding in which a protective order is sought or has been issued.

  • 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.