Valid Claim

Valid Claim. The term "Valid Claim" means any claim of an issued and unexpired patent which claim has not been revoked or held unenforceable, unpatentable, or invalid by a decision of a court or governmental agency of competent jurisdiction from which no further appeal can be taken or has been taken within the time allowed for appeal, and has not been abandoned, disclaimed, denied or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer (including through terminal disclaimer), and is not... lost through an interference proceeding, inter partes review, post-grant review proceeding or foreign equivalent, that is unappealable as a matter of right or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal. View More

Valid Claim. Means a claim in any unexpired issued Licensed Patent which has not been rejected, disclaimed or held invalid by a decision beyond the right of review.

Valid Claim. Means: (a) a claim of an issued and unexpired patent within the Licensed Technology that has not been (i) held revoked, unenforceable, unpatentable or invalid by a decision of a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction, unappealable or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal, (ii) rendered unenforceable through disclaimer or otherwise, (iii) abandoned or (iv) lost through an interference proceeding; and (b) a pending claim of a pending patent application within the Licensed... Technology that has not been abandoned or rejected without the possibility of an appeal or refiling. View More

Valid Claim. Means a claim in an issued patent within the Patent Rights that has not (a) expired; (b) been disclaimed (but, if terminally disclaimed, only after the patent to which the terminal disclaimer is tied has expired); (c) been declared invalid or unenforceable in a final decision of a court, or (d) been declared invalid or unenforceable in a final decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, from which no appeal can be taken (for the avoidance of doubt, a court of appeals' judgment or order is... not "final" until issuance of the mandate). **** View More

Valid Claim. Means: (a) a claim of an issued and unexpired patent within the TRDF Patent Rights or Joint Patent Rights that has not been (i) held permanently revoked, unenforceable, unpatentable or invalid by a decision of a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction; unappealable or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal, (ii) rendered unenforceable through disclaimer or otherwise, (iii) abandoned or (iv) lost through an interference proceeding; and (b) a pending claim of a pending patent... application within the TRDF Patent Rights or Joint Patent Rights that (i) has been asserted and continues to be prosecuted in good faith and (ii) has not been abandoned or finally rejected without the possibility of appeal or refilling. View More

Valid Claim. (i) a claim of an issued and unexpired patent included within the Princeton Patent Rights which has not been held invalid in a final decision of a court of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal may be taken, and which has not been disclaimed or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or otherwise, or (ii) a claim of a pending patent application within the Princeton Patent Rights and for which not more than five (5) years has elapsed from the filing date to which the claim... is entitled. View More

Valid Claim. Means a claim of a granted patent which has not been disclaimed, abandoned or surrendered or declared invalid or unenforceable in a final, unappealable or unappealed decision of a judicial or administrative court, government agency or patent office of appropriate jurisdiction.

Valid Claim. Means: (a) a claim of an issued and unexpired patent within the Patent Rights that has not been (i) held permanently revoked, unenforceable, unpatentable or invalid by a decision of a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction, unappealable or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal, (ii) rendered unenforceable through disclaimer or otherwise, (iii) abandoned or (iv) permanently lost through an interference or opposition proceeding without any right of appeal or review; or (b) a... pending claim of a pending patent application within the Patent Rights that (i) has been asserted and continues to be prosecuted in good faith and (ii) has not been abandoned or finally rejected without the possibility of appeal or refilling. View More

Valid Claim. Means a claim of any Patent whose validity, enforceability, or patentability has not been affected by any of the following: (a) irretrievable lapse, abandonment, revocation, dedication to the public, or disclaimer; or (b) a holding, finding, or decision of invalidity, unenforceability, or non-patentability by a court, governmental agency, national or regional patent office, or other appropriate body that has competent jurisdiction, such holding, finding, or decision being final and unappealable... or unappealed within the time allowed for appeal; provided that, with respect to a Patent application such prosecution has not been ongoing for more than five (5) years. View More

Valid Claim. Means (a) a claim of an issued patent in the U.S. or in a jurisdiction outside the U.S., as applicable, that has not expired, lapsed, been cancelled or abandoned, or been dedicated to the public, disclaimed, or held unenforceable, invalid, revoked or cancelled by a court or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction in an order or decision from which no appeal has been or can be taken, including through opposition, reexamination, reissue or disclaimer; or (b) a claim of a pending patent... application that has not been finally abandoned or finally rejected or expired and which has been pending for no more than seven (7) years from the date of filing of the earliest priority patent application to which such pending patent application is entitled to claim benefit View More