Disclaimer Issue definition

Disclaimer Issue means a terminal disclaimer (including under 35 U.S.C. § 253 or 37 CFR 1.321 or the equivalent laws or regulation of any other patent authority, a “Terminal Disclaimer”) that exists or is or should reasonably be required to be made in a patent or patent application to address a double patenting issue, including such an issue raised in a judicial or administrative proceeding (including any proceeding with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or any corresponding foreign patent authority).
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Disclaimer Issue means a terminal disclaimer (including under 35 U.S.C. § 253 or 37 CFR 1.321 or the equivalent laws or regulation of any other patent authority, a “Terminal Disclaimer”) that exists or is or should reasonably be required to be made in a patent or patent application to address a double patenting issue, including such an issue raised in a judicial or administrative proceeding (including any proceeding with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or any corresponding foreign patent authority). 1.4 “Patent Documents” means documents, records and files in the possession or control of Seller relating to the Purchased Patents, including (a) the original (or, if the original is not available, a copy) of the patent certificate for each of the Purchased Patents that has issued, (b) complete prosecution files and docketing reports (including patent listing, current status, actions due and deadlines), including materials filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (or the equivalent authority in any other country) with respect to such Purchased Patents, (c) originals (or, if the original is not available, a copy) of all assignment agreements in its possession relating to the Purchased Patents, including a written assignment to Seller from each inventor for each Purchased Patent, and (d) books, inventor notebooks, and proof of maintenance payments to the U.S. PTO, and (e) any other materials or information in the possession or control of, or known to, Seller that, to Seller’s knowledge, is material to the enforcement of such Purchased Patents; but specifically excluding any portions of the above not related to the Purchased Patents and any attorney-client privileged information contained in any such documents, records and files. 1.5 “Potentially Relevant License” means any non-exclusive license listed in Section 3 of Exhibit D. 1.6 “Purchased Patents” means (a) the patents and patent applications identified in Exhibit A (“Patents”) and the inventions disclosed therein, (b) all reissues, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions, renewals, reexaminations and foreign counterparts thereof, and all other patents, patent applications, certificates of invention and other governmental grants resulting from the Patents, (c) all patents and applications which claim priority to or have common disclosure or common priority with any such patents or patent applications (for the avoidance of doubt, patents which include partial commonalities such as figures or p...
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Disclaimer Issue means that a terminal disclaimer (including under 35 U.S.C. Sec. 253 and 37 CFR 1.321) exists or is made in one Patent or Patent application to address a double patenting concern based upon an earlier issuance of another Patent.
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Examples of Disclaimer Issue in a sentence

  • If, after the Effective Date, any Assigned Patent is subject to a Disclaimer Issue linking it to a Patent of Seller, Seller shall, without additional consideration, nunc pro tunc transfer and does hereby convey as of the Effective Date (to the extent not previously effectively assigned by Seller to Purchaser pursuant to Section 2.1), ownership of such Seller Patent to Purchaser and such Patent shall be considered an Assigned Patent hereunder.

  • If any Purchased Patent is subject to a Disclaimer Issue after the Effective Date with respect to any other patent or patent application of Seller or its Affiliates, Seller shall transfer, and hereby does transfer, ownership of such patent or patent application to Purchaser without additional consideration and such patent or patent application shall be a Purchased Patent.

  • If any Purchased Patent is subject to a Disclaimer Issue after the Effective Date with respect to any other patent or patent application of Seller or its affiliates, Seller shall transfer, and hereby does transfer, ownership of such patent or patent application to Purchaser without additional consideration and such patent or patent application shall be a Purchased Patent.