Gala Crossword
Across
- 2. Thousands of inventors named on BSC patents
- 4. Type of simple patent submission to secures your priority date
- 7. Title of oldest Boston Scientific patent
- 9. Patent Criteria that what you are patenting has to be significantly different from existing item
- 11. Record number of patents held by one person
- 15. Number of countries BSC has held patents in
- 17. Thousands of patents BSC has been awarded since 1979
- 23. Number of years Boston Scientific has existed as a company
- 24. Oldest active trademark
- 25. Plant to receive first plant patent
- 28. President to sign first US patent
- 30. Co-Founder of Boston Scientific
- 31. Vests upon the moment of creation
- 33. Patent Criteria to serve a purpose, or improve upon something that is already useful
- 34. Company which currently owns most number of patents
Down
- 1. Inventor of Diving Suit
- 3. Patent Criteria that the invention is not known of or described in writing anywhere else prior to your application
- 5. US President with patent
- 6. Most common title for Boston Scientific patent
- 8. Inventor of refrigeration
- 10. Type of Patent for "a new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter"
- 12. Confidential type of intellectual property
- 13. Hometown of Boston Scientific
- 14. Country with the most patents
- 16. Number of patent attorneys in-house at BSC
- 18. State that is home of US Patent Office
- 19. Invention of Alexander Bell
- 20. Type of Patent "granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant"
- 21. Prompted extension of copyright term
- 22. Indicates authenticity or source of goods
- 26. Subject of the first patent, filed in 1421, which was a nautical invention by Filippo Brunelleschi
- 27. New patent applications filed by BSC in 2023
- 29. Patents are first come, first _____
- 32. Type of Patent for "a new, original, and ornamental design"