(US, legal) A patent claim to a computer program, written in the form of a claim to an article of manufacture: a computer-readable medium on which are encoded, typically, instructions for carrying out
(US, legal) A patent claim to a computer program, written in the form of a claim to an article of manufacture: a computer-readable medium on which are encoded, typically, instructions for carrying out a process.
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(US, legal) A patent claim that identifies multiple functionally equivalent chemical entities allowed in one or more parts of a compound.
(US, legal) A patent claim where one or more limitations are specifically identified as a point of novelty, distinguishable over at least the contents of the preamble.
(US, legal) Being or relating to a kind of patent claim that attempts to cover basic research or a discovery before it has become a full invention.
(US, legal) The combination, in a patent claim, of a novel device with conventional elements in a conventional manner.
(UK, _, patent law) A declaration or order sought, for reasons of legal certainty, from a court that a product or process to be launched was old (i.e., not novel) or obvious in patent law terms at a particular date, so that the product (or process) cannot be affected by (i.e., cannot infringe) any later granted patent, which would itself necessarily also either lack novelty or inventive step.