definiens: means : ( a ) all national, regional and international patents and patent applications, includingprovisional patent applications ; ( b ) all patent applications filed either from a patent or patent application described in clause ( a)or from an application claiming priority to a patent or patent application described in clause ( a ), including continuingapplications, divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals, and continued prosecutionapplications ; ( c ) any and all patents that have issued or in the future issue from the foregoing patent applications ( clauses ( a ) and(b ) ), including utility models, petty patents and design patents and certificates of invention ; ( d ) any and all extensions orrestorations by existing or future extension or restoration mechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, re - examinations andextensions ( including any supplementary protection certificates and the like ) of the foregoing patents or patent applications(clauses ( a ), ( b ) and ( c ) ) ; and ( e ) any similar rights, including so - called pipeline protection, or any importation, revalidation, confirmation or introduction patent or registration patent or patent of additions to any such foregoing patent applications andpatents