file wrapper estoppel — see estoppel 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
file wrapper estoppel — Under the doctrine of file wrapper estoppel, an applicant who has limited or modified a claim in order to avoid its rejection by the Patent Office may not later expand his claim by including the excluded matter, or its equivalent, or by omitting… … Black's law dictionary
file wrapper estoppel — Under the doctrine of file wrapper estoppel, an applicant who has limited or modified a claim in order to avoid its rejection by the Patent Office may not later expand his claim by including the excluded matter, or its equivalent, or by omitting… … Black's law dictionary
file wrapper — noun Etymology: file (V) : the written record in the patent office of negotiations between an applicant and that office preceding the issuance or rejection of a patent … Useful english dictionary
file wrapper — The written record of the preliminary negotiations between an applicant and the Patent Office for a patent monopoly contract. Norton Co. v. Carborundum Co., C.A.Mass., 530 F.2d 435, 440 … Black's law dictionary
file wrapper — The written record of the preliminary negotiations between an applicant and the Patent Office for a patent monopoly contract. Norton Co. v. Carborundum Co., C.A.Mass., 530 F.2d 435, 440 … Black's law dictionary
file wrapper estoppel — noun : a doctrine in patent law that one who has acquiesced in the rejection of a broad claim in his application for a patent may not later assert that a claim deliberately more restricted is equivalent to the original claim … Useful english dictionary
File Transfer Protocol — (FTP) is a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network such as the Internet.FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging and manipulating files over a TCP computer network. A FTP client may connect to a … Wikipedia
File format — A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice … Wikipedia
File alteration monitor — In computing, the File Alteration Monitor, also known as FAM and sgi fam, provides a subsystem developed by Silicon Graphics for Unix like operating systems. The FAM subsystem allows applications to watch certain files and be notified when they… … Wikipedia