Glossary entry (derived from question below)
русский term or phrase:
Отличительные признаки
английский translation:
Characteristic features
русский term
Отличительные признаки - distinctive features
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Jack Doughty
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Judith Hehir
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Feb 3, 2010 20:53: Jack Doughty Created KOG entry
Feb 3, 2010 20:53: Jack Doughty changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/8364">Jack Doughty's</a> old entry - "Отличительные признаки - distinctive features"" to ""Characteristic features""
Proposed translations
Characteristic features
¶ 15.47 Characteristic Feature Statement
A "characteristic features" statement describing a particular feature of novelty or nonobviousness in the claimed design may be permissible in the specification. Such a statement should be in terms such as "The characteristic feature of the design resides in [1]," or if combined with one of the Figure descriptions, in terms such as "the characteristic feature of which resides in [2]." While consideration of the claim goes to the total or overall appearance, the use of a "characteristic feature" statement may serve later to limit the claim (McGrady v. Aspenglas Corp., 487 F. Supp. 859, 208 USPQ 242 (S.D.N.Y. 1980)).
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Nick Grekov (X)
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David Knowles
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Yuliia Shapovalova
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Igor Blinov
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Discussion
European patents and applications typically (virtually always) contain so-called two-part claims. That is, a claim lists some features, then contains the phrase "characterized in that" or "with an improvement comprising", and then one or more further features. Those latter features are what constitutes the invention (and so are often called the characterizing features). The former features are found in the prior art.
http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/uspto-epodiff/