Unit two

Ex. 9

Text 2

1- B

2- F

3- E

4- A

5- I

6- D

7- H

8- G

9- C

Ex.11.

1 – manufactures articles

2 - composition of matter

3 - field of subject matter

4 - granting of patents

5 - Scientific and Technical Information Center of the USPTO

6 - U.S. Patent Classification System

7 - filing an application

8 - examination of an application

9 - patent examiner

10 - issued patents

11 – attorney

12 - related patent application

Ex.13

Text 3 Official Patent Bulletin

Official patent bulletin “Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office” has been published since 1872. 12 volumes are published within a year, each of them including four or five issues.

At the beginning of each issue of the Gazette there is information concerning the number of patents published in the issue; their numeration; notices about the number of patent decisions of the previous month; information about the patents received by the US Patent Office library from different countries; the number of applications, which came to the Office within the previous month; and a list of experts. A lot of space is taken up by the information concerning changes in the US patent legislation and US Patent Office regulations.

The main part of the Gazette is taken up by “Patents” section, which contains information about issued patents. The material of this section is divided into three subject groups: General and Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical.

One of the most important sections is “Defensive Publications”. With the help of defensive publications an applicant has an opportunity to set the priority of his/her invention without obtaining a patent and to notify the interested persons and competitors about his/her invention; to receive the exclusive right to use the invention for a certain period of time because in case of its adoption in industry the applicant must be the first to prepare the production for the output of the new goods.

In the 70s each Gazette issue contained information about applications that were exposed to the public according to the experimental voluntary protest program, for example:

“Disclosure was also published under the second Trial Voluntary Protest Program on…”.

“Reexaminations” section contains information about the results of reexamination, bibliographical information, drawings, a claim and the sentence:

“As a result of Reexamination, it has been determined that the patentability of claims…is confirmed.”

In “Plant Patents” section the information about plant patents is published. The subject of patenting can be new sorts of plants, except those that are asexually reproduced from bulbs or found in an uncultivated state.

Ex.15.

1) patent examination

2) engineering solution

3) industrial property object

4) patent office

5) preliminary examination

6) examination of patentability

7) filing date

8) regulated process

9) conformity or nonconformity

10) according to the current legislation