definiens: means ( a ) all national, regional, and internation al patents and patent applications, including provisional patent applications, ( b ) all patent app lications filed either from such patents, patent ap plications or provisional applications or from an application cla iming priority from either of these, including divi sionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals, and requests for continued examinations, ( c ) any and all patents that have iss ued or in the future issue from the foregoing paten t applications ( ( a ) and ( b ) ), including utility models, innovation patents, petty patents and design patents, and cer tificates of invention, ( d ) any and all revalidations, reissues, re - examinations, and extensions ( including any sup plementary protection certificates and the like ) of the forego ing patents or patent applications ( ( a ), ( b ), and ( c ) ), and ( e ) all international equivalents of the foregoing