KSA: Knowledge, skills, and abilities (as pertaining to job qualifications).
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Know How: Information related to Intellectual Property, innovations, improvements, processes, formulas, information, trade secrets, etc.
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KIPO: Korean Intellectual Property Office.
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Kind Codes: WIPO Standard ST. 16 codes (kind codes) include a letter, and in many cases a number, used to distinguish the kind of patent document (e.g., publication of an application for a utility patent (patent application publication), patent, plant patent application publication, plant patent, or design patent) and the level of publication (e.g., first publication, second publication, or corrected publication).
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Key Characteristics of Design Patents: Design patents protect only the non-functional, ornamental design of a product.
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JPTOS: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society - a quarterly-published journal writing on topics of patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
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JPO: Japan Patent Office.
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jpg: JPG file type extension or JPEG – "Joint Photographic Experts Group" - is one of several digital image formats that are viewable in web browsers. JPEG image files are encoded using a standard for file compression (making the files smaller).
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Joint Ownership: Ownership rights shared by two or more persons or entities.
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Joint Inventors: Patent law terminology applied when two or more people co-created an innovation.
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Joint Inventor: An inventor who is named with at least one other inventor in a patent application, wherein each inventor contributes to the conception (creation) of the invention set forth in at least one claim in a patent application.
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JCCT: Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade is an expansive annual dialogue, usually held in the late fall, that addresses commercial and trade issues between the U.S. and China. JCCT is co-chaired by the USPTO with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
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ISA: International Search Authority - either a national Office or an intergovernmental organization whose tasks include the establishment of international search reports and written opinions of the International Searching Authority.
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IRB: Investment Review Board.
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IPO: Intellectual Property Owners Association.
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IPLA: International Patent Legal Administration (formerly PCT Legal Administration) - educates and assists the patent community, develops policy and resolves legal issues relating to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs and other international cooperative patent projects or agreements, such as the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
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IPER: International Preliminary Examination Report (Form PCT/IPEA/409) - produced by an International Preliminary Examining Authority, is a preliminary and non-binding opinion on whether the invention claimed in an international application appears to be novel, to involve an inventive step (to be non-obvious), and to be industrially applicable.
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IPEA: International Preliminary Examining Authority - either a national Office or an intergovernmental organization whose tasks include the establishment of international preliminary reports on patentability (Chapter II of the PCT).
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IPA: Internet Purchasing Application.
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Inventive Step: A requirement in patent law that an invention must not be obvious to a person skilled in the art.
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