Background Patent Rights

Background Patent Rights. Of a PARTY is BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY to the extent that a related invention is covered by the claims of any issued unexpired patents under the patent laws of any country.

Background Patent Rights. Means: (a) the patents and patent applications listed in Exhibit A; (b) any patent or patent application that claims priority to and is divisional, continuation, reissue, renewal, reexamination, substitution or extension of any patent application identified in (a); (c) any patents issuing on any patent application identified in (a) or (b), including any reissues, renewals, reexaminations, substitutions or extensions thereof; (d) any claim of a continuation-in-part application or patent... (including any reissues, renewals, reexaminations, substitutions or extensions thereof) that is entitled to the priority date of, and is directed specifically to subject matter specifically described in, at least one of the patents or patent applications identified in (a), (b) or (c); (e) any foreign counterpart (including PCTs) of any patent or patent application identified in (a), (b) or (c) or of the claims identified in (d); and (f) any supplementary protection certificates, any other patent term extensions and exclusivity periods and the like of any patents and patent applications identified in (a) through (e); View More