definiens: means : ( a ) all national, regional and international patents and patent applications, including provisional patent applications ; ( b ) all patent applications filed either from such patents, patent applicationsor provisional applications or from an application claiming priority from either of these, including divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals and continued prosecution applications;(c ) any and all patents that have issued or in the future issue from the foregoing patent applications ( ( a ) and ( b)),including utility models, petty patents, innovation patents and design patents and certificates of invention ; ( d ) any andall extensions or restorations by existing or future extension or restoration mechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, re - examinations and extensions ( including any supplementary protection certificates and the like ) of theforegoing 11patents or patent applications ( ( a ), ( b ) and ( c ) ) ; and ( e ) any similar rights, including so - called pipeline protection or anyimportation, revalidation, confirmation or introduction patent or registration patent or patent of additions to any of suchforegoing patent applications and patents