Patent Terms Glossary

Activity based cost accounting - an accrual-based accounting method for determining unit-based costs of delivering services by allocating the costs to budgetary resources.

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Deceased Inventor

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A named inventor who has died prior to the filing of a patent application or during the prosecution of a patent application.

Substitute Patent Application

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An application which is in essence a duplicate of a prior (earlier filed) application by the same applicant abandoned before the filing of the substitute (later filed) application.

ABM

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Activity based management - a management methodology that combines ABC with business process analysis techniques to run, improve and measure performance for a business.

National Stage Application

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An application which has entered the national phase of the Patent Cooperation Treaty by the fulfillment of certain requirements in a national Office, which is an authority entrusted with the granting of national or regional patents.

Applicant

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An application for patent filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) that includes all types of patent applications (i.e., utility, design, plant, and reissue) except provisional applications.

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