Prosecution definition

Prosecution means, with respect to a Patent, preparing, filing, prosecuting and maintaining such Patent, including any interference and opposition proceedings, reissue, post-grant reviews, inter partes review, re-examination and applications for patent term extensions, and all appeals or petitions to any agency, board or court related to any of the foregoing. When used as a verb, “Prosecute” means to engage in Prosecution.

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Prosecution means the preparation, filing, prosecution, issuance and maintenance (including interference, opposition and similar Third Party proceedings before the relevant patent office) of any patent applications and patents.

Prosecution or “Prosecute” means the filing, preparation, prosecution and maintenance of Patents, including any and all pre-grant proceedings before any patent authority, such as interferences.

Examples of Prosecution in a sentence

In addition, the Parties acknowledge and agree that, with regard to Prosecution, enforcement and defense of Patents (directly or through the JIPC) under this ARTICLE 10 (Intellectual Property), the interests of the Parties as collaborators, licensors, or licensees are to, for their mutual benefit, obtain Patent protection and plan Patent defense against potential patentability/invalidity challenges or infringement activities by Third Parties, and as such, are aligned and are legal in nature.
Janux and its Affiliates have complied with all Applicable Law, including any disclosure requirements and any laws involving inventor remuneration, in connection with the Prosecution of the Janux Licensed Patents.
The Parties shall cooperate in good faith to complete the transfer of Prosecution of Product-Specific Licensed Patents to Company or its designated legal counsel [***] of the Effective Date.
Notwithstanding any other term or condition of this Section 10.2 (Prosecution and Maintenance of Intellectual Property), Vir Bio shall not, and shall ensure its Affiliates and permitted subcontractors do not, file or otherwise disclose in connection with any Patent filing or other Prosecution any data generated under this Agreement or, subject to Section 10.2.6 (Sanofi’s Prosecution Rights), specifically relating to any Licensed Compound or Licensed Product, without the prior written consent of Company.
Company will have the sole right (but not the obligation) to control the Prosecution of all other Patents Controlled by Company, the Prosecution of which is not set forth in Section 10.2.1 (Background IP) or Section 10.2.2 (Product-Specific Licensed Patents and Joint Foreground Patents) (the “Other Company Patents”).

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Prosecution has the meaning set forth in Section 9.2(a).

Prosecution has a corresponding meaning.

Prosecution means prosecution of any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any other registration authority in any country, including regarding any application (whether ex parte or inter partes), including interference, reexamination and reissue. The terms “Affiliate” and “Affiliates” have the meanings ascribed thereto in the CPI Agreements.

Prosecution or “Prosecute” means, with respect to Patents, the preparation, filing for, prosecuting, filing reissue applications, responding to oppositions, nullity actions, re-examinations, revocation actions, post-grant reviews, inter partes reviews and similar proceedings (including conducting or participating in interference and oppositions) filed by Third Parties against, and maintaining, Patents.

Prosecution has the meaning set forth in Section 5.2(a).

Prosecution means, with respect to a Patent Right, the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Patent Right (and all directly related activities), as well as all activities relating to post grant review proceedings, reexaminations, reissues and the like 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; the term “Prosecute” shall have the correlative meaning.

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.