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In the law of Patents, the presence of two pending applications, or an existing patent and a pending application that encompass an identical invention or discovery. When interference exists, the Patent and Trademark Office conducts an investigation to ascertain the priority of invention between the conflicting applications, or the application and the patent. A patent is customarily granted to the earlier invention. |
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The VEF-V system, which is equipped with a high-sensitive charge coupled device (CCD), can capture bright and clear images free from interference fringes. The interference fringe can be aligned using the TIC slider without time-consuming sample orientation normally associated with polarization interferometers, according to the company. m]) is the index of refraction at the fringe maximum, t is the physical thickness of the etalon sample, and m is the order of the interference fringe. |
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