Valid Claim means a claim within the Patent Rights (including any re-issued and unexpired patents) which has not been held unenforceable or invalid by the decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction unappealable or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal and which has not been admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through re-issue or disclaimer or otherwise.
Valid Claim means a claim of an issued and unexpired Patent that (i) has not been revoked or held unenforceable or invalid by a decision of a court or other Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal can be taken or has been taken within the time allowed for appeal and (ii) has not been abandoned, disclaimed, denied, or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer or otherwise in such country.
Valid Claim means a claim of an issued and unexpired patent included within the Licensed Patent Rights, which has not been held permanently revoked, unenforceable or invalid by a decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction, unappealable or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal, and which has not been admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer or otherwise.
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LICENSEE will not, however, be relieved from paying any royalties that accrued before such expiration or decision or that are based on another VALID CLAIM not expired or involved in such decision.
If any patent or patent application, or any VALID CLAIM thereof, included within REGENTS' PATENT RIGHTS expires or is held invalid in a final decision by a court of competent jurisdiction and last resort and from which no appeal has been or can be taken, all obligations to pay royalties based on such patent, patent application or VALID CLAIM, or any claims patentably indistinct therefrom will cease as of the date of such expiration or final decision.
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Valid Claim means any claim in an unexpired patent included within Licensed Patents which claim has not been disclaimed or held invalid or unenforceable by an unappealed or unappealable decision of a court.
Valid Claim means a claim of an issued and unexpired patent, or a pending claim of a patent application that is being prosecuted, that has not been held unpatentable, invalid or unenforceable by a court or other Governmental Authority with no further right of appeal.
Valid Claim means a claim in an unexpired patent or pending patent application so long as such claim shall not have been irrevocably abandoned or held invalid in an unappealable decision of a court or other authority of competent jurisdiction in the relevant country.
Valid Claim means a claim of an issued patent which has not lapsed or become abandoned or been declared invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or an administrative agency from which no appeal can be or is taken.
Valid Claim means a claim of an issued and unexpired patent included within the Patent Rights, which has not been held permanently revoked, unenforceable or invalid by a decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction, unappealable or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal, and which has not been admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer or otherwise.
Valid Claim means a claim of any issued and unexpired patent or pending patent application whose validity, enforceability, or patentability has not been affected by any of the following: (a) irretrievable lapse, abandonment, revocation, dedication to the public, or disclaimer; or (b) a holding, finding, or decision of invalidity, unenforceability, or non-patentability by a court, Governmental Authority, national or regional patent office, or other appropriate body that has competent jurisdiction, such holding, finding, or decision being final and unappealable or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal.
Valid Claim means a claim of an issued and unexpired patent (including any patent claim the term of which is extended by any extension, supplementary protection certificate, patent term restoration, or the like) included within the Licensed Patents or a claim of a pending patent application included within the Licensed Patents, which has not lapsed, been abandoned, been held revoked, or been deemed unenforceable or invalid by a non-appealable decision or an appealable decision from which no appeal was taken within the time allowed for such appeal of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction.