Patent Terms Glossary
OACS
Definition:
Office Action Correspondence System - used by patent examiners to generate office actions.
EFS-ABX
Definition:
Electronic Filing System – Application Body eXtensible Markup Language authoring tool.
COTS
Definition:
Commercial Off The Shelf - an acquisition term refering to commercially available ready to use products that require no customization in order to meet performance requirements.
Certification Mark
Definition:
Any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce by someone other than its owner.
Patent
Definition:
A property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States.
PALM
Definition:
Patent Application Locating and Monitoring system - an internal USPTO system that is the source of status information displayed in PAIR .
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