Patent Mining
A person who creates something new and useful.
What is an inventor?
This document, issued by a patent or trademark office, sets out the particulars of a newly filed application.
What is a Filing Receipt?
This list associated with trademark registration establishes the scope of protection of the registration.
What is the Goods and Services list?
This group decides what inventions will be pursued for protection by Shopify.
What is the Patent Committee?
An action under this policy can allow a trademark holder to recover domain names held by a squatter.
What is a the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)?
This "office" is an agency of the US Department of Commerce.
What is the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office)?
The international treaty establishes the baseline rules for affording reciprocal treatment to IP filing dates across member jurisdictions.
What is The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property?
The United States is unique amongst major intellectual property offices in continuing to require this statement to be filed by a trademark application in order to obtain a registration.
What is a Declaration of Use?
Formal documents with each inventors signature are collected after each US patent application is filed and include assignments and this document establishing that each inventor is an inventor.
What is an inventor declaration?
Shopify relies on an annuities provider to make these essential payments for the contents of its IP portfolio.
What are maintenance fees?
This document provides a basic overview of a concept accepted for patenting.
What is an Invention Disclosure Form (IDF)?
This type of communication, issued by an intellectual property office, identifies one or more alleged defects in an IP registration application.
What is an Office Action?
A third-party concerned by a trademark application can, after the application has been advertised, file this to try to prevent the trademark from being granted.
What is an opposition proceeding?
This database is the source of truth for Shopify's IP data.
What is Symphony?
This channel allows Shopifolk to ask questions of the IP-Legal team about Shopify's brand IP.
What is #help-legal-brands-trademarks-domains?
This document sets out the theory of the case for a new patent filing.
What is the Outline?
This deadline, usually 30 months, under the Patent Co-operation Treaty establishes the period for creating a national patent application based on an international patent application.
What is the National Phase Entry deadline?
This, possible ones of which include Intent to Use and Prior Registration and Use Abroad, is stated by a US trademark applicant as a reason why they are entitled to seek a registration?
What is the basis?
What is FOSSA?
These fees must be remitted when the number of claims in a US or Canadian patent application exceeds 20.
What are excess claim fees?
This term refers to the fundamental "nugget" that is the focus of a given patent application.
What is the Inventive concept?
This type of Office Action is issued by the USPTO in a patent case when prosecution of an application is closed but certain formal defects remain.
What is an In re Quayle action?
This international system allows trademark protection in multiple jurisdictions to be pursued using a single application?
What is the Madrid Protocol?
This meeting determines which patent applications should be filed in secondary jurisdictions.
What is the foreign filing review?
This technology is used to transfer data from Symphony into Shopify's data warehouse?
What is Meltano?