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 any of these, including utility applications, divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals, and continued prosecutionapplications, and reissue applications ; ( c ) any and all patents that have issued or in the future issue from the patentapplications described in ( a ) and ( b ) above, including author certificates, inventor certificates, utility models, pettypatents and design patents and certificates of invention ; ( d ) any and all extensions or restorations by existing or futureextension or restoration mechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, reexaminations and extensions ( including anysupplementary protection certificates and the like ) of the foregoing patents or patent applications described in ( a),(b ) and ( c ) above ; and ( e ) any similar rights, including so - called pipeline protection ( where the subject matterpreviously disclosed was not previously patentable in a particular jurisdiction but subsequently becomes patentablesubject matter in such jurisdiction )