definiens: means with respect to any patents or patent applications, any and all ( a ) patents issuing from such patent applications, ( b ) substitutions, divisionals, renewals, continuations or continuations -in - part ( only to the extent of claims that are entitled to the priority date of the parent application ) ; ( c ) patents of addition, restorations, extensions, supplementary protection cer tificates, registration or confirmation patents, patents resulting from post -grant proceedings, re -issues and re -examinations ; ( d ) other patents or patent applications claiming and entitled to claim priority to ( i ) such patents and patent applications and any patent or patent application specified in ( a ), ( b ) or ( c ), or ( ii ) any patent or patent application from which such patents and patent applications or a patent or patent application specified in ( a ), ( b ) or ( c ) claims and is entitled to claim priority ; ( e ) all rights of priority attendant to such patents and patent applications and any of the patents and patent applications listed in ( a ) through ( d ) ; and ( f ) in each case of such patents and patent applications and of the patents and patent applications described in ( a ) through ( d ), including all counterparts and foreign equivalents thereof filed in any country, territory or jurisdiction in the world . With respect to any patent or patent application, the items described in the foregoing clauses ( a ) throug h ( e ) may be referred to herein as the -8- 1.53 means any natural person or any corporation, company, partnership, joint venture, firm or other entity, including a Party, or any government or agency or political s ubdivision thereof