definiens: means the patents and applications identified on Exhibit and the Seller ’s patent rights in thejointly - owned patents and applications identified on Exhibit, plus ( a ) all national, regional and international patents andpatent applications deriving priority or issuing therefrom or from any patent rights from which such patent rights identifiedon Exhibit derive priority or issue, including provisional patent applications, ( b ) all patent applications filed either fromsuch patents, patent applications or provisional applications or from an application claiming priority from either of these, including divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals, re - issues and re - examinations, and continued prosecution applications, ( c ) any and all patents that have issued or in the future issue from theforegoing patent applications ( ( a ) and ( b ) ), including utility models, petty patents and design patents and certificates ofinvention, ( d ) any and all extensions or restorations by existing or future extension or restoration mechanisms, includingrevalidations, reissues, re - examinations and extensions ( including any supplementary protection certificates and the like ) ofthe foregoing patents or patent applications ( ( a ), ( b ) and ( c ) ), and ( e ) any similar rights, including so - called pipelineprotection, or any importation, revalidation, confirmation or introduction patent or registration patent or patent of additions toany such foregoing patent applications and patents