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

At the reasonable request of LIBD, Latigo shall consider in good faith all Prosecution actions reasonably recommended by LIBD which would expand the scope of rights sought or add dependent claims to cover specific Joint Products.
For clarity, Latigo shall have final decision authority over the Prosecution of the Joint Patents.
All non-public information exchanged between the Parties or between LIBD’s outside patent counsel and Latigo regarding Prosecution of the Licensed Patents, and all shared information regarding analyses or opinions of third party intellectual property, shall be deemed Confidential Information of the disclosing Party.
With respect to any action necessary to protect a particular Licensed Patent in a particular country, if Latigo instructs LIBD in writing not to take such action, which instruction must be given at least [***] ([***]) days before a particular Prosecution action is required for the protection of certain rights comprising a Licensed Patent for such Licensed Patent, [***].
Accordingly, the Parties hereby agree to jointly pursue the Prosecution of LTGO-03 inclusive of the subject matter of the Other LTGO Applications as set forth herein.

More Definitions of Prosecution

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

Prosecution has a corresponding meaning.

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

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 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.