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• priority date — Generally the first person to apply for a patent for an invention will own the patent and this position applies in most countries. However the effect of international patent conventions is that the first application is termed the priority date… …   Law dictionary

• Priority date — is a United States immigration concept. A common path to the green card in the United States is to obtain it through a family based or employment based petition, a very complex process that can take many years to complete. When a foreign worker,… …   Wikipedia

• priority date — See patent …   Big dictionary of business and management

• Priority — may refer to: Priority date, a concept of establishing waiting times in the immigration process by United States Department of State Priority level, the priority of emergency communications Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and… …   Wikipedia

• Priority right — In patent, industrial design rights and trademark laws, a priority right or right of priority is a time limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent, an industrial design or a trademark respectively. The priority… …   Wikipedia

• Priority to the right — is a right of way system, in which a driver of a vehicle shall give way to vehicles approaching from the right at intersections. The system is stipulated in Article 18.4.a of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic for countries where traffic keeps …   Wikipedia

• priority — Used for listed equity securities. System used in an auction market, in which the first bid or offer price is executed before other bid and offer prices, even if subsequent orders are larger. NYSE rules stipulate that the bid made first should be …   Financial and business terms

• priority — noun (plural ties) Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) the quality or state of being prior (2) precedence in date or position of publication used of taxa b. (1) superiority in rank, position, or privilege (2) legal precedence in exercise of rights over… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• priority — the valid name of a taxon is usually the oldest name applied to it; seniority fixed by date of publication …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• priority — n.; pl. ties [L. prior, former, superior] The principle that of two competing names for the same taxon (below the rank of an infraorder) the validity is based on which was published first, either by date or page (when in the same journal) …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• filing date — Obtaining a patent under the Patents Act 1977 falls into three main stages. Firstly an application is filed with the Patent Office. This filing date commences the 20 year period of patent protection (see also priority date). After a twelve month… …   Law dictionary