Patent Defense definition

Patent Defense means the responsibility for defending any interference, declaratory judgment action, opposition, inter partes review, re-examination or similar action or proceeding alleging the invalidity, unenforceability or non-infringement of any Patent Right.
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Patent Defense means the responsibility for defending any Patent against any Third Party invalidity challenges that are not included within Patent Prosecution, excluding any such invalidity challenges asserted as a defense in a proceeding to enforce such Patent.
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Patent Defense means the responsibility for defending any interference, declaratory judgment action, opposition, inter partes review, re-examination or similar action or proceeding alleging the invalidity, unenforceability or non- infringement of any Patent Right.
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Examples of Patent Defense in a sentence

  • All Patent Costs incurred by Lilly in connection with the Patent Defense of such Patent Rights shall be, as between the Parties, the sole responsibility of Lilly.

  • Sigilon shall only be responsible for the Patent Defense of Sigilon Other Patent Rights, and as between the Parties, the Upstream Patent Rights.

  • Upon receipt of such notice, Lilly shall have the right, but not the obligation, to assume sole responsibility for Patent Defense of such Sigilon Other Patent Rights and paying all future Patent Costs associated with such Sigilon Other Patent Rights, including Patent Defense costs associated with such Patent Defense and such Sigilon Other Patent Right shall cease to be, for purposes of royalty calculation hereunder, a Sigilon Patent Right.

  • If Lilly decides to cease such Patent Defense with respect to any Sigilon Program Patent Right, Lilly Program Patent Right or Joint Patent Right, it shall inform Sigilon of such decision promptly and, in any event, so as to provide Sigilon a reasonable amount of time to meet any applicable deadline to defend or preserve such Patent Rights.

  • Lilly shall cooperate with and assist Sigilon in all reasonable respects, in connection with Sigilon’s Patent Defense activities.

  • All Patent Costs incurred by Sigilon in connection with the Patent Defense of such Sigilon Other Patent Rights shall be the sole responsibility of Sigilon.

  • Sigilon shall cooperate with and assist Lilly in all reasonable respects, in connection with Lilly’s Patent Defense activities.

  • If Sigilon decides to cease such Patent Defense with respect to any such Sigilon Other Patent Right, it shall inform Lilly of such decision promptly and, in any event, so as to provide Lilly a reasonable amount of time to meet any applicable deadline to defend or preserve such Patent Rights.

  • Lilly shall be responsible for the Patent Defense of Lilly Patent Rights, Sigilon Program Patent Rights, and Joint Patent Rights.

  • Upon a written request of Resources Genpharm will authorize the lawyer or other representative of Genpharm or its applicable Affiliate engaged in the defense or investigation of such Claim to discuss with and disclose to Resources possible future Patent Defense Expenses to be incurred in the investigation or defense of the Claim.

Related to Patent Defense

  • Patent Rights means the rights and interests in and to issued patents and pending patent applications (which, for purposes of this Agreement, include certificates of invention, applications for certificates of invention and priority rights) in any country or region, including all provisional applications, substitutions, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, renewals, all letters patent granted thereon, and all reissues, re-examinations and extensions thereof, and all foreign counterparts of any of the foregoing.

  • Licensee Patents means all of the Patents Controlled by Licensee, its Sublicensees, or any of its or their respective Affiliates as of the Effective Date or during the Term that are necessary (or, with respect to patent applications, would be necessary if such patent applications were to issue as patents) for the Exploitation of a Licensed Product in the Field in the Territory.

  • Collaboration Patents means any and all Patents that claim or cover any of the Collaboration Know-How.

  • Licensed Patents means (a) all United States patents and patent applications listed in Exhibit A, as modified pursuant to Section 2.6.1, including patents arising from such patent applications; and (b) any re-examination certificates thereof, and their foreign counterparts and extensions, continuations, divisionals, and re-issue applications; provided that “Licensed Patents” will not include any claim of a patent or patent application covering any Manufacturing Technology.

  • Collaboration Patent Rights means Patent Rights claiming Collaboration Know-How.

  • Product Patents means any Patent Controlled or owned by Quoin in the Territory that, absent the license in Section 2.1, would be infringed by the importation, sale, or use of the Product in the Territory by a third party.

  • Patent Right means: (a) an issued or granted patent, including any extension, supplemental protection certificate, registration, confirmation, reissue, reexamination, extension or renewal thereof; (b) a pending patent application, including any continuation, divisional, continuation-in-part, substitute or provisional application thereof; and (c) all counterparts or foreign equivalents of any of the foregoing issued by or filed in any country or other jurisdiction.

  • Program Patent Rights means all Patent Rights that claim or cover patentable Program Know-How, including any Program-Specific Patent Rights.

  • Licensed Patent Rights means:

  • Patent Applications means all published and unpublished nonprovisional and provisional patent applications, reexamination proceedings, invention disclosures and records of invention, applications for certificates of invention and priority rights, in any country and regardless of formal name, including without limitation, substitutions, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, renewals, revivals, reissues, re-examinations and extensions thereof.

  • Joint Patent Rights means all Patent Rights claiming a Joint Invention.

  • Third Party Technology means all Intellectual Property and products owned by third parties and licensed pursuant to Third Party Licenses.

  • Joint Patents means all Patents claiming Joint Inventions.

  • Patent Prosecution means the responsibility and authority for (a) preparing, filing and prosecuting applications (of all types) for any Patent, (b) paying, filing and maintenance fees relating to any Patent, (c) managing any interference, opposition, re-issue, reexamination, revocation, nullification, or cancellation proceeding relating to the foregoing, (d) deciding to abandon Patent(s) and (e) settling any interference, opposition, revocation, nullification or cancellation proceeding.

  • Infringement has the meaning set forth in Section 6.3(a).

  • Valid Patent Claim means a claim of an issued and unexpired Patent which has not been disclaimed, revoked, held unenforceable or invalid by a decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction, unappealable or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal, and which has not been admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer or otherwise.

  • Patent Application means an application for patent protection for a CRADA Subject Invention with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“U.S.P.T.O.”) or the corresponding patent-issuing authority of another nation.

  • Third Party Infringement has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1.

  • Collaboration Technology means all Collaboration Patents and Collaboration Know-How.

  • Company Patents means Patents owned by the Company or used or held for use by the Company in the Business.

  • Product Infringement has the meaning set forth in Section 9.4(a).

  • 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.

  • Licensed Patent means Stanford's rights in U.S. Patent Application, Serial Number , filed , any foreign patent application corresponding thereto, and any divisional, continuation, or reexamination application, extension, and each patent that issues or reissues from any of these patent applications. Any claim of an unexpired Licensed Patent is presumed to be valid unless it has been held to be invalid by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal can be or is taken. “Licensed Patent” excludes any continuation-in-part (CIP) patent application or patent.

  • Patent means (a) all patents and patent applications in any country or supranational jurisdiction in the Territory, (b) any substitutions, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, provisional applications, reissues, renewals, registrations, confirmations, re-examinations, extensions, supplementary protection certificates and the like of any such patents or patent applications, and (c) foreign counterparts of any of the foregoing.

  • Licensed Technology means the Licensed Know-How and Licensed Patents.

  • Product Technology means the Product Know-How and Product Patents.