“Valid Claim”. Valid Claim means any claim from an issued and unexpired patent that # has not been revoked or held unenforceable or invalid by a final decision of a court or other Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction and that has not been disclaimed, denied or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer or otherwise; or # a patent application; provided, that such a claim within a patent application has not been canceled, withdrawn, or abandoned or been pending for more than ​ years from the date of its first priority filing in the applicable country or region. For clarity, a claim of a patent that, pursuant to clause (b), had ceased to be a Valid Claim before it issued but that subsequently issues and is otherwise described by clause (a), shall again be considered to be a Valid Claim once it issues until it is no longer considered a Valid Claim in accordance with clause (a).

“Valid Claim”. Valid Claim means any claim from # an issued and unexpired patent that has not been revoked or held unenforceable or invalid by a final decision of a court or other Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction, or that has not been disclaimed, denied or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer or otherwise; or # a patent application; provided that such a claim within a patent application has not been canceled, withdrawn, or abandoned or been pending for more than ​ years from the date of its first priority filing in the applicable country or region. For clarity, a claim of a patent that, pursuant to clause (b), had ceased to be a Valid Claim before it issued but that subsequently issues and is otherwise described by clause (a), shall again be considered to be a Valid Claim once it issues until it is no longer considered a Valid Claim in accordance with clause (a). For the purpose of [Section 6.5], if a patent application has been pending for more than ​ years from the date of its first priority filing in the applicable country or region matures into an issued patent after the expiration of the Royalty Term in the applicable country or region, such issued patent thereof shall not be counted as a Valid Claim in such country or region.

“Valid Claim” means a claim of # an issued and unexpired patent, which claim has not been revoked or held unenforceable, unpatentable or invalid by a decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction, which is not appealable or has not been appealed within the time allowed for appeal, and which has not been abandoned, disclaimed, denied or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue, re-examination or disclaimer or otherwise, or # a patent application for a patent that has been pending less than ​ from the earliest date on which such patent application claims priority and which claim has not been cancelled, withdrawn or abandoned or finally rejected by an administrative agency action from which no appeal can be taken. If a claim of a patent application that ceased to be a Valid Claim due to the passage of time later issues, then it will again be a Valid Claim effective as of the issuance of such patent.

“Valid Claim” means a claim # of any issued, unexpired patent that has not been revoked or held unenforceable or invalid by a decision of a court or governmental agency of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal can be taken, or with respect to which an appeal is not taken within the time (including any extensions) allowed for appeal, and that has not been disclaimed or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue, disclaimer or otherwise, or # of any patent application that has been pending less than ​ from the earliest date on which such patent application claims priority and which claim has not been irretrievably cancelled, withdrawn or abandoned, provided, that, if, at any time after such ​ period, a patent issues from such patent application with such claim, such claim shall be a Valid Claim, effective as of the date of issue of such patent.

“Valid Claim” means a claim of a Patent which claim # has not been rejected, revoked or held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, from which decision no appeal can be further taken, or # has not been finally abandoned, disclaimed or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer; provided that in the case of a pending patent application, a claim shall not be included in the definition of Valid Claim if it is not issued within ​ from its earliest priority date.

“Valid Claim” means # an issued claim of any Patent Right that has not been permanently revoked, nor held unenforceable or invalid by a decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction that is unappealable or unappealed in the time allowed for appeal, and which has not been cancelled, withdrawn or abandoned or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue, disclaimer or otherwise or # a pending claim of a patent application or series of related patent applications that has been pending, in the same or substantially the same claims, less than ​ from the date of filing of the earliest patent application from which such patent application claims priority, which claim has not been cancelled, withdrawn or abandoned, or finally rejected by an administrative agency action from which no appeal can be taken. For clarity, a claim in a patent application that fails to issue within ​ from its earliest priority date, and subsequently issues, becomes a Valid Claim upon issuance.

“Valid Claim” means # an issued claim of any Patent Right that has not been permanently revoked, nor held unenforceable or invalid by a decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction that is unappealable or unappealed in the time allowed for appeal, and which has not been cancelled, withdrawn or abandoned or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue, disclaimer or otherwise or # a pending claim of a patent application or series of related patent applications that has been pending, in the same or substantially the same claims, less than ​ from the date of filing of the earliest patent application from which such patent application claims priority, which claim has not been cancelled, withdrawn or abandoned, or finally rejected by an administrative agency action from which no appeal can be taken.

“Valid Claim” means a claim of a Patent that # has not been rejected, revoked or held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, from which decision no appeal can be further taken, or # has not been finally abandoned, disclaimed or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer. In order to be a Valid Claim, any claim being prosecuted in a pending patent application must ​.

“Valid Claim” means: # a claim in an issued Patent that has not: # expired or been cancelled; # been revoked, # been declared, or admitted through reissue, disclaimer or otherwise, to be invalid or unenforceable; or # been abandoned; or # a claim under any application for a Patent, in any case, that has not been cancelled, revoked, withdrawn from consideration, held invalid, finally determined to be unallowable by the applicable Governmental Authority or court for whatever reason (and from which no appeal is or can be taken), or abandoned and which has not been pending for more than ​ from the date of its first filing.

“Valid Claim” means a claim of # an issued and unexpired patent (as may be extended through supplementary protection certificate or patent term extension or the like) that has not been revoked or held invalid or unenforceable by a patent office, court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment (or judgment from which no appeal was taken within the allowable time period) and which claim has not been disclaimed, denied or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue, re-examination or disclaimer or otherwise, or # a pending patent application that # has been pending less than seven (7) years from its earliest priority date, # was filed and is being prosecuted in good faith and # has not been cancelled, withdrawn or abandoned or finally rejected by an administrative agency action from which no appeal has or can be taken.