definiens: means ( a ) all national, regional and international patents and patent applications, including provisional patentapplications, ( b ) all patent applications filed either from 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 andcontinued 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 and design patents and certificates of invention, ( d ) any and all extensions or restorations byexisting or future extension or restoration mechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, re - examinations and extensions ( including anysupplementary protection certificates and the like ) of the foregoing patents or patent applications ( ( a ), ( b ), and ( c ) ), and ( e ) any similar rights, including so - called pipeline protection