definiens: means ( a ) all national, regional and international patents and patentapplications, including provisional patent applications, ( b ) all patent applications filed eitherfrom such patents, patent applications or provisional applications or from an applicationclaiming priority from either of these, including divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals and continued prosecution applications, ( c ) any andall patents that have issued or in the future issue from the foregoing 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 orrestoration mechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, re - examinations and extensions(including any pediatric exclusivity and other such exclusivities that are attached to patents, patent term extensions, supplementary protection certificates and the like ) of the foregoingpatents or patent applications ( ( a ), ( b ), and ( c ) ), and ( e ) any similar rights, including so - calledpipeline protection or any importation, revalidation, confirmation or introduction patent orregistration patent or patent of additions to any of such foregoing patent applications andpatents