definiens: . Patent Rights means the rights and interest in and to ( a ) all issued patents andpending patent applications in any country, including provisional patent applications, in any country ; ( b ) all patentapplications that claim, directly or indirectly, priority to any patent or patent applications described in clause ( a),including all provisionals, divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, patents of addition, renewals, continuedprosecution applications and requests for continued examination ; ( c ) any and all patents that have issued or in thefuture issue from any of the patent applications described in clause ( a ) or clause ( b ), including utility models, pettypatents and design patents and certificates of invention ; and ( d ) any and all extensions or restorations by existing orfuture extension or restoration mechanisms, including any re - examination, registrations or confirmation patents, lettersof patent and reissues thereof, or other extensions, or restorations of patent terms resulting from any other post - grantproceedings ( including, without limitation, any proceedings that will come into effect through full implementation of theLeahy - Smith America Invents Act of 2011, and any supplementary protection certificates and the like ), with respect toany of the patents or patent applications described in clause ( a ), clause ( b ), or clause ( c )