Prosecute and Maintain definition
Prosecute and Maintain means, with regard to a Patent Right, the preparing, filing, prosecuting and maintenance of such Patent Right, as well as handling re-examinations, reissues, and requests for patent term extensions with respect to such Patent Right, together with the conduct of interferences, the defense of oppositions and other similar proceedings with respect to the particular Patent Right. For clarification, “Prosecution and Maintenance” or “Prosecute and Maintain” will not include any other enforcement actions taken with respect to a Patent Right.
Prosecute and Maintain shall have the correlative meaning.
Prosecute and Maintain with regard to a given Patent, means the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Patent, as well as any ex parte and inter partes proceedings, including reexaminations, reissues, applications for patent term extensions, interferences, derivation proceedings, post-grant review proceedings, oppositions and other similar administrative proceedings with respect to such Patent.
Examples of Prosecute and Maintain in a sentence
Subject to [* * *] final decision making authority pursuant to Section 2.7, the Working Group for patent prosecution shall determine which Party has the first right, but not the obligation, to Prosecute and Maintain the Program Patents other than Product-Specific Patents, at such Party’s sole cost and expense.
As between the Parties, ▇▇▇▇▇ has the sole responsibility, at ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ discretion and at ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ sole cost and expense, to Prosecute and Maintain all Lilly Patents.
More Definitions of Prosecute and Maintain
Prosecute and Maintain means, with respect to the applicable Patent Rights, the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Patent Rights, as well as re-examinations, reissues, appeals, and requests for patent term adjustments and patent term extensions with respect to such Patent Rights, together with the initiation or defense of interferences, the initiation or defense of oppositions, post grant review, and other similar proceedings with respect to the particular Patent Rights, and any appeals therefrom. For clarification, “Prosecution and Maintenance” or “Prosecute and Maintain” shall not include any other enforcement actions taken with respect to Patent Rights.
Prosecute and Maintain has the correlative meaning.
Prosecute and Maintain means, with regard to a Patent, the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Patent, as well as re-examinations, reissues, appeals, and requests for patent term adjustments and patent term extensions with respect to such Patent, together with the initiation or defense of interferences, oppositions, inter partes review, derivations, re-examinations, post-grant proceedings and other similar proceedings (or other defense proceedings with respect to such Patent, but excluding the defense of challenges to such Patent as a counterclaim in an infringement proceeding) with respect to the particular Patent, and any appeals therefrom. For clarification, “Prosecution and Maintenance” or “Prosecute and Maintain” shall not include any other enforcement actions taken with respect to a Patent.
Prosecute and Maintain means, with regard to a Patent Right, the preparing, filing, prosecuting and maintenance of such Patent Right, as well as re-examinations, reissues, and requests for patent term adjustments, patent term extensions and supplementary protection certificates with respect to such Patent, together with the initiation or defense of interferences, the initiation or defense of oppositions, revocation and invalidity proceedings, and other similar proceedings with respect to the particular Patent, and any appeals therefrom. For clarification, “Prosecution and Maintenance” or “Prosecute and Maintain” shall not include any other enforcement actions taken with respect to a Patent.
Prosecute and Maintain or “Prosecution and Maintenance” with respect to a particular Patent, means (a) all activities associated with the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Patent, and (b) all Patent Defense Matters with respect to such Patent.
Prosecute and Maintain means, with regard to a Patent, the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Patent, as well as re-examinations, reissues and appeals with respect to such Patent, together with the initiation or defense of interferences, oppositions, inter partes review, derivations, re-examinations, post-grant proceedings and other similar proceedings (or other defense proceedings with respect to such Patent, but excluding the defense of challenges to such Patent as a counterclaim in an infringement proceeding) with respect to the particular Patent, and any appeals therefrom, and actions to obtain patent term extensions and supplementary protection certificates with respect to such Patent and the like. For clarification, “Prosecution and Maintenance” or “Prosecute and Maintain” will not include any other enforcement actions taken with respect to a Patent.
Prosecute and Maintain means activities directed to (a) preparing, filing, prosecuting and maintaining Patent Rights, (b) managing and settling any interference, opposition, re-issue, reexamination, supplemental examination, invalidation (including inter partes or post-grant review proceedings), revocation, nullification or cancellation proceeding relating to the foregoing, but excluding managing and settling the defense of challenges to Patent Rights in a declaratory judgment action or as part a counterclaim in an infringement proceeding.