definiens: means : ( a)all national, regional and international patents and patent applications, including provisionalpatent applications ; and ( b)all patent applications filed either from such patents, patent applications or provisionalapplications or from an application claiming priority from any of these, including divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals, and continuedprosecution applications ; and ( c)any and all patents that have issued or in the future issue from the foregoing patentapplications in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) above, including author certificates, inventor certificates, utility models, petty patents and design patents and certificates of invention ; and ( d)any and all extensions or restorations by existing or future extension or restorationmechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, re - examinations and extensions ( including anysupplementary protection certificates and the like ) of the foregoing patents or patentapplications in paragraphs ( a ) to ( c ) inclusive, and ( e)any similar rights, including so - called pipeline protection ( where the subject matter previouslydisclosed was not previously patentable in a particular jurisdiction but subsequently becomespatentable subject matter in such jurisdiction ), or any importation, revalidation, confirmation orintroduction patent or registration patent or patent of additions to any such foregoing patentapplications and patents