| 词条 | Patent family |
| 释义 |
A patent family is "a set of patents taken in various countries to protect a single invention (when a first application in a country – the priority – is then extended to other offices)."[1] In other words, a patent family is "the same invention disclosed by a common inventor(s) and patented in more than one country."[2] Patent families can be regarded as a "fortuitous by-product of the concept of priorities for patent applications".[3] DefinitionsThe International Patent Documentation Centre (INPADOC), the European Patent Office (EPO) and WIPO recognize the following definitions of simple and extended patent families: Simple patent family: All patent documents have exactly the same priority date or combination of priority dates.[4]Extended patent family: All patent documents are linked (directly or indirectly) via a priority document belonging to one patent family. The extended families allow for additional connectors to link other than strictly priority date. These include: domestic application numbers, countries that have not ratified the Paris Convention, or if the application was filed too late to claim priority.[5]Those are not the only possible definitions of a patent family, however. Another definition, which is broader than the "simple patent family" definition but narrower than the "extended patent family" definition, is to consider that "[a]ll the documents having at least one common priority belong to the same patent family."[3] In general, "[p]atent families are [effectively] defined by databases, not by national or international laws, and family members for a particular invention can vary from database to database."[6] See also
References1. ^Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Economic Analysis and Statistics Division, OECD science, technology and industry scoreboard: towards a knowledge-based economy, OECD Publishing, 2001, {{ISBN|92-64-18648-4}}, {{ISBN|978-92-64-18648-4}}, page 60. 2. ^United States Patent and Trademark Office web site, Glossary. Consulted on April 27, 2009. 3. ^1 {{cite journal |date= March 2014 |title=Beyond patent families – an updated perspective |url=http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/CE0CCA52C8BAEFCDC1257C99004C1BA2/$File/patent_information_news_0114_en.pdf |journal=Patent Information News |publisher=European Patent Office |issue=1 |pages=4–5 |accessdate=16 March 2014}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.epo.org/searching/essentials/patent-families/definitions.html |title=Patent families > Definitions |author= |date= |work= |publisher=European Patent Office |accessdate=October 17, 2012}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.epo.org/searching/essentials/patent-families/inpadoc.html |title=Patent families > The "extended" (INPADOC) patent family |author= |date= |work= |publisher=European Patent Office |accessdate=October 17, 2012}} 6. ^{{cite journal |last=Simmons |first=E S |date=2009 |title="Black Sheep" in the patent family |journal=World Patent Information |issue=31 |pages=11–18}} cited in {{cite journal |date= March 2014 |title=Beyond patent families – an updated perspective |url=http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/CE0CCA52C8BAEFCDC1257C99004C1BA2/$File/patent_information_news_0114_en.pdf |journal=Patent Information News |publisher=European Patent Office |issue=1 |pages=4–5 |accessdate=16 March 2014}} External links
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