definiens: means ( a ) all issued unexpired national, regional and international patents and ( including inventor’scertificate ) that has not been held invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction from which noappeal can be taken or has been taken within the required time period ; ( b ) all national, regional and internationalpatent applications, including provisional patent applications, ( b ) all patent applications filed either from suchpatents, patent applications or provisional applications or from an application claiming priority from either of these, including divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals, and continuedprosecution applications, ( c ) any and all unexpired patents that have issued or in the future issue from the foregoingpatent applications ( ( a ) and ( b ) ), including utility models, petty patents and design patents and certificates ofinvention, ( d ) any and all substitutions, extensions or restorations by existing or future extension or restorationmechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, renewal, 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, or any importation, revalidation, confirmation orintroduction patent or registration patent or patent of additions to any such foregoing patent applications andpatents