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Registration

The granting of formal recognition of a trademark, copyright, industrial design, or integrated circuit by the controlling government authority. 

Registered Patent Agent

A non-lawyer specialist registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office entitled to prepare and prosecute patent applications.

Registered Patent Attorney

An attorney registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as well as before the federal and state courts.

Registered trademark

A trademark entered on the federal government’s Trademarks Register, which formally recognizes the owner’s rights to the mark.

Registrar of Trademarks

The official responsible for the United States Trademark Office.

Registrar of Copyrights

The official responsible for the United States Copyright Office.  

Renewal fee

Industrial designs: Fee required in order to renew the rights to an industrial design for a second five-year period for designs registered prior to January 1, 1994.

Trademarks: Fee required in order to renew a trade-mark registration for an additional fifteen-year period.

Representative for service

A person in a country appointed by the applicant or registered proprietor to receive documents on his/her behalf.

Rome Convention country

A country that is party to the international convention for the protection of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organizations done at Rome on October 26, 1961.

Royalty

A sum paid to the holder of a patent, trademark or copyright for the use of their works, or other subject matter.