: financial burden or outlay; specifically : an item of business outlay chargeable against revenue for a specific period business expense : an expense made in furtherance of one's business especially as part of the cost of operating a business in the taxable year in which the expense is incurred â compare capital expense and personal expense in this ...
When completing Box No. I, item 1, of Form PCT/ISA/237, the examiner must indicate whether or not the opinion has been established on the basis of the international application in the language in which it was filed. If a translation was furnished for the purpose of the search, this must be indicated.
The United States Declaration of Independence, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were no longer a part of the British Empire, exists in a number of drafts, handwritten copies, and published broadsides.homas Jefferson preserved a four-page draft that late in life he called the original Rough draught.. Known to historians as the Rough Draft, early students of the Declaration believed that this was a draft written alone by Jefferson and then presented to the Committee of Five drafting committee.