definiens: means ( a ) all national, regional and international patents and patent applications, including provisional patentapplications, ( b ) all patent applications ﬁled either claiming priority to such patents, patent applications or provisionalapplications or from an application claiming priority from any of these, including divisionals, continuations, continuations - in - part, provisionals, converted provisionals and requests for continued examinations, ( c ) any and all patents that have13|||issued or in the future issue from the foregoing patent applications ( ( a ) and ( b ) ), including utility models, innovation patents, petty patents and design patents and certiﬁcates of invention, ( d ) any and all extensions or restorations by existing or futureextension or restoration mechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, re - examinations, inter partes review, oppositions, andextensions ( including any supplementary 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, confirmationor introduction patent or registration patent or patent of additions to any of such foregoing patent applications and patents