related patent applications are those filed after an initial application is filed but before it is issued as a patent and that involve similar or related technologies. for example , an inventor may come up with an improvement to technology disclosed in an earlier filed application. instead of filing...

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a trial for invalidation is a means established to legally invalidate a patent right or a utility model right , design right, or trademark right, that was granted fir an invention or trademark etc. but which should have been rejected by law.under such circumstance, a trail for invalidation declares ...