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The grant procedure before the European Patent Office(EPO) is an ex parte, administrative procedure, which includes the filing of a European patent application,[1]the examination of formalities,[2]the establishment of a search report,[3]the publication of the application,[4]its substantive examination,[5]and the grant of a patent,[6]or the ...
The electronic publishing process follows some aspects of the traditional paper-based publishing process [26] but differs from traditional publishing in two ways: 1) it does not include using an offset printing press to print the final product and 2) it avoids the distribution of a physical product (e.g., paper books, paper magazines, or paper ...
The inventive step and non-obviousness reflect a general patentability requirement present in most patent laws, according to which an invention should be sufficiently inventive—i.e., non-obvious—in order to be patented. [ 1] In other words, " [the] nonobviousness principle asks whether the invention is an adequate distance beyond or above ...
Patent law. A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification [ notes 1] and a set of one or more claims stated in a formal document, including necessary official forms and related correspondence. It is the combination of the document and its processing ...
Enabling Act of 1802, authorizing residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio. Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union. Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory ...
Open access. Open access ( OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. [ 1] With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an ...
A request for qualifications (RFQ) is a step sometimes used in the formal process of procuring a product or service, for example by a government agency.It is typically used as a screening step to establish a pool of vendors (businesses or individuals to provide a product or service) that are then qualified, and thus eligible to submit responses to a request for proposals (RFP).
Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted on the Internet is often called "grey literature".