Term	Meaning
Assignee	The entity that owns the patent
Claim	The subject matter that is protected by the patent
Continuation-in-part	A patent application in which information not disclosed in the parent application is disclosed, and which contains most of the parent specification and shares at least one inventor.
Division	When an application contains two or more inventions, part of it may be separated into a new application
Examiner	The one who reviews the application to ensure that it accords with patent codes and rules and determines whether or not a patent can be granted
Examples	Examples illustrate the disclosures in the specifications. They include tests performed and experimental results. Prophetic examples based on predictions are allowed.
Exhibits	Documents presented during Patent Board or Court hearing
Grant	Award of the patent
Interference	An interference occurs when two or more applications, or an unexpired patent, claim the same subject matter
Invention	Unique or novel composition, process, product, device or method
Priority	Refers to the first date of filing of a patent application
Prior art	Any evidence that the invention being applied for is already known. Includes published information, presentations
Reduction to practice	Actually doing the experimental or scaled up activities to show that the invention works.
Specification	It discloses the full scope of the invention and defines the subject matter to be patented