Prosecute definition

Prosecute means preparation, filing, and prosecuting patent applications and maintaining patents, including any reexaminations, reissues, oppositions, inter partes review, and interferences.
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Prosecute means to engage in Prosecution.
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Prosecute or “Prosecution” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.2(a).
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Examples of Prosecute in a sentence

  • Each Party, as Patent Owner, shall have the first right to Prosecute and Maintain any and all Patents Controlled by such Party that are included in such Party’s Licensed Technology, at its own cost.

  • Novavax will have the sole right (but not the obligation) to Prosecute and Maintain any Novavax Adjuvant Patent (including Joint Arising Patents that are Novavax Adjuvant Patents) at Novavax’s sole cost and expense.

  • Chiesi shall notify Gossamer as to its decision not to continue to Prosecute and Maintain of any Chiesi Patent Rights in any country in which it was filed.

  • The Party that solely owns the applicable Intellectual Property described in Section 11.1 (Intellectual Property Ownership) will, at its sole discretion and expense, have the sole right (but not the obligation) to Prosecute and Maintain all Patent Rights included in such Intellectual Property worldwide (each a “Sole Prosecuted Patent”), save as further described in this Section 11.2 (Patent Prosecution).

  • Novavax shall take all reasonable actions necessary to enable Sanofi to become the Prosecuting Party in all respects, including executing all papers and instruments, or requiring its employees or contractors to execute such papers and instruments, so as to enable Sanofi to Prosecute and Maintain the Novavax General Combo Patents in the applicable country or jurisdiction.


More Definitions of Prosecute

Prosecute or “Prosecution” means, with respect to Patents, the preparation of, filing for, prosecuting, responding to oppositions, nullity actions, re-examinations, revocation actions and similar proceedings (including conducting or participating in interference, oppositions, reissue proceedings, reexaminations, post-grant proceedings and any other similar proceeding relating thereto) filed by Third Parties against, and maintaining, Patents.
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Prosecute or “Prosecution” means in relation to any Patents, (a) to prepare and file patent applications, including re-examinations or re-issues thereof, and represent applicants or assignees before relevant patent offices or other relevant Governmental Authorities during examination, re-examination and re-issue thereof, in appeal processes and interferences, or any equivalent proceedings [***], (b) to defend all such applications against Third Party oppositions or other challenges, (c) to secure the grant of any patents arising from such patent application, (d) to maintain in force any issued patent (including through payment of any relevant maintenance fees), (e) to obtain and maintain patent term extensions or supplemental protection certificates or their equivalents, and (f) to make all decisions with regard to any of the foregoing activities.
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Prosecute means the filing, preparation, prosecution and maintenance of Patents, including any and all pre-grant proceedings before any patent authority, such as interferences.
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Prosecute means in relation to any Patent Rights, (i) to prepare and file patent applications, and represent applicant(s) or assignee(s) before relevant patent offices or other relevant authorities in connection therewith, (ii) to secure the grant of any Patent Rights arising from such patent application, (iii) to maintain in force any issued Patent Right (including through payment of any relevant maintenance fees), and (iv) to make all decisions with regard to any of the foregoing activities. “Prosecution” has a corresponding meaning.
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Prosecute means the preparation, filing, prosecution, issuance and maintenance of Patent Rights, including continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, extensions, reexaminations, inter partes review, reissues, supplemental examinations, appeals, interferences, derivation proceedings, oppositions, all other proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (including the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) and foreign patent offices, and any judicial or other appeals of the foregoing. Cognates of the word “Prosecution” have their correlative meanings.
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Prosecute or “Prosecuting” means with regard to specified Patent Rights, preparing, filing, prosecuting, validating, maintaining and defending such Patent Rights, including with respect to any re-examination, reissue, revocation, interference or opposition proceedings including any appeal therefrom. For the avoidance of doubt, “Prosecuting” excludes any infringement suits or other legal proceedings to enforce the specified Patent Rights, regardless of whether or not such proceedings involve the defense of the Patent Rights in suit.
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Prosecute means, with respect to a Patent Right, all communication and other interaction with any Patent Office or patent authority having jurisdiction over a patent application in connection with pre-grant proceedings.
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