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Patent & Trademark AI Examiner glossary
Terms used in Patent & Trademark AI Examiner and its documentation.
Applies to Patent & Trademark AI Examiner as it works today. Moraph updates the platform continuously, and this page is reviewed when it changes.
Terms used in Patent & Trademark AI Examiner and its documentation.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Claim element | One limitation of a patent claim, searched and charted separately. |
| Claim chart | A table matching each claim element to the passages in the references the examiner accepted. |
| Prior art | Patent documents and other publications that may show a claimed invention was already known. |
| Non-patent literature | Scientific and technical publications that are not patent documents, searched from sources your office licenses. |
| Similar-mark search | A search for registered and pending marks that look, sound or mean alike a mark under examination. |
| Design code | A code your office assigns to a figurative element of a mark so it can be searched. |
| Ranked suggestion | The tool's ordering of results by likely relevance; it is labeled as a suggestion and the examiner decides relevance. |
| Search history | The record of every query, source, date and result reviewed for an application. |
| AI use record | The record of which AI functions and model version were used on an application and what the examiner accepted or rejected. |
| Supporting search request | A request to a search specialist for an additional search on an application. |
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