IFW

Definition:
Image File Wrapper -- an electronic version of a patent application, including image and/or text versions of the bibliographic information, all papers as filed, and all office actions and correspondence related to that application.

Economic Espionage Act

Definition:
A U.S. statute, adopted in 1996, which provides criminal penalties for the theft of trade secrets. The EEA makes it illegal to steal or fraudulently obtain trade secrets for the benefit of a foreign government, instrumentality, or agent and steal trade secrets that benefit "anyone other than the owner."

"Citation"

Definition:
A written reference/description unique to an individual work. Primary elements of a citation include the name of the author, the title, the place of publication, the publisher's name, the date of publication, and a journal or chapter title, designation of the location, page number, or Web page of a reference.

Intellectual Property

Definition:
Certain creations of the human mind that have commercial value and are given the legal aspects of a property right.

Novelty

Definition:
"One of the three conditions that an invention must meet in order to be patentable. Novelty is present if every element of the claimed invention is not disclosed in a single piece of prior art."

Joint Inventor

Definition:
An inventor who is named with at least one other inventor in a patent application, wherein each inventor contributes to the conception of the invention set forth in at least one claim in a patent application.

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