definiens: means : ( a)all national, regional and international patents and patent applications, including provisional patent applications;and ( b)all patent applications filed either from such patents, patent applications or provisional applications or from anapplication claiming priority from any of these, including divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals, and continued prosecution applications ; and ( c)any and all patents that have issued or in the future issue from the foregoing patent applications in paragraphs ( a)and ( b ) above, including author certificates, inventor certificates, utility models, petty patents and design patentsand certificates of invention ; and ( d)any and all extensions or restorations by existing or future extension or restoration mechanisms, includingrevalidations, reissues, re - examinations and extensions ( including any supplementary protection certificates andthe like ) of the foregoing patents or patent applications in paragraphs ( a ) to ( c ) above inclusive, and ( e)any similar rights, including so - called pipeline protection ( where the subject matter previously disclosed was notpreviously patentable in a particular jurisdiction but subsequently becomes patentable subject matter in suchjurisdiction ), or any importation, revalidation, confirmation or introduction patent or registration patent or patent ofadditions to any such foregoing patent applications and patents