(international law) The accumulated legislation and decisions of any international community.

Opposing patents (legal claims to inventions) or the nature of current patent law.

Alternative spelling of artistic licence [Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by an artist to achieve a desired effect.]

Abbreviation of authentic. [Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.]

(US, law) A patent claim to a computer program, written in the form of a claim to an article of manufacture: a computer-readable medium on which are encoded, typically, instructions for carrying out a process.

(law) A patent relating to a particular area of technology which prevents another patent from being used because the other patent relies on technology covered by the first.

(patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.

An agreement which takes effect when a certain event happens.

Of, relating to, or enforced by a contract.

(countable) Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.

(patent law, derogatory) A person or company that enforces copyrights that it owns for purposes of generating income through strategic litigation, in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic.

(finance, insurance, law) The other party to a financial transaction

A set of licences intended to offer the consumer more freedoms than traditional copyright.

An act of delegating.

Relating to transfer or conveyance.

(law, copyright law) Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.

(law) One who has been designated

(law, US) A legal rule in most patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement when the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the claimed invention.

(law, of a court case) Abbreviation of dismissed for want of prosecution.

Having power to enact or establish as a law.

(patent law, pharmaceuticals) To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.

(US, law) The combination, in a patent claim, of a novel device with conventional elements in a conventional manner.

(law) a doctrine in intellectual property law that permits one party to make use of another party's protected intellectual property (such as a copyright or trademark) under narrowly defined circumstances.

(US, law) A legal doctrine that limits the rights of a copyright or trademark owner by allowing certain forms of distribution, such as enabling individuals to sell legally purchased copyrighted works to others.

(international law) An international treaty which defines the required treatment for prisoners of war by their captors.

(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

(law) an intellectual property right that protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian

(law) Intellectual property as used in commerce and industry, particularly patents and trademarks, as distinguished in some European legal systems from intellectual property as used in the arts.

Instituted by authority.

(uncountable) Any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value: a piece of literature, a painting, an invention, a trademark, a trade secret, etc. Works protected under intellectual property law, and accorded intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents.

(US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.

(law) In patent law, the doctrine that the work done by a person hired by an inventor to test a conception supports the right of that inventor to the resulting invention.

(US, law) A patent claim where one or more limitations are specifically identified as a point of novelty, distinguishable over at least the contents of the preamble.

(law) A type of legal document in the form of an open letter issued by an authority granting a monopoly, right, status, or title to a person or organization.

The condition of being licensed.

One who has a licence to exercise a profession.

(US, law) A patent claim that identifies multiple functionally equivalent chemical entities allowed in one or more parts of a compound.

(international law) An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

Possessed in common.

(social work) A social work practice model in which members of a group both provide and receive help.

(finance) An organization in which members do not contribute to the capital of the company by direct investment, but derive their right to profits and votes through their customer relationship.

A mutual organization.

(law) A pair of identical documents executed by a married couple, one signed by the husband, the other by the wife, intended to create an irrevocable contract insuring identical dispositions of their property upon the death of either or both.

To organize a business (especially a financial business) so that it is owned by its customers (or its employees)

(law) A clause (of a judgment, order, resolution, etc.) which requires anything to be done or not to be done.

(law) In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so.

(specifically)

(law) A consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents.

(law) A group of patents in a field of technology which collectively impede a party from commercializing its own patents or products in that field.

(patent law, informal, derogatory) A company, person, etc., that owns and enforces patents in an aggressive and opportunistic manner, often with no intention of producing, marketing, or promoting the subjects of the patents.

One who obtains a patent on something; a patentee.

The holder of a patent.

Having ownership of a legal patent.

One who obtains a legal patent.

(UK, law) Any hypothetical person used in a legal test related to patents

(US, law) In United States patent law, the hypothetical individual whose likely knowledge determines whether an improvement on existing technology would be obvious, and therefore not patentable.

(patent law) A person with average vocational or (more likely) professional knowledge in the field of a particular patent or invention.

Abbreviation of possessive pronoun. [(grammar) A pronoun which expresses possession.]

(law) In most systems of patent law, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality, and to which the patent application is compared to determine if it in fact describes a new invention.

(law) A statement detailing policies that an organization or party uses to collect or hide information about an end user or customer of the organization, particularly where it concerns private information.

Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.

(law) In United States patent law, the circumstance under which a person who has filed a patent application, and then made amendments to the application to accommodate the patent law and secure issuance of the patent, is prevented from bringing a cause of action for infringement of the patent where the allegedly infringing acts falling within the matter disclaimed by the amendment.

(US, law) Being or relating to a kind of patent claim that attempts to cover basic research or a discovery before it has become a full invention.

(patent law, nonstandard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).

(copyright law, usually in the plural) A right of a creative work not connected with the work's actual author.

(law) An agreement that prevents fair competition on the open market, such as an agreement by one party to hire a second party to work within a profession on the condition that the second party will not compete against the first.

(by extension) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.

(law) A feature of the copyright law of some countries, whereby the duration of protection granted by the country in question to a work created in a foreign country is limited to no greater than that which it would have received in its country of origin, even if it would have been eligible for a greater duration had it been created in the country in question; the rule that, when a copyrighted work passes into the public domain in its country of origin, it will also pass into the public domain in the country in question if it has not already done so.

A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying any of the above.

(US, law) In United States patent law, an implied license under which a firm may use a patented invention, invented by an employee who was working within the scope of their employment, using the firms' equipment, or inventing at the firms' expense.

(law) Control over a financial account with ones signature.

(philosophy) Synonym of social contract.

The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.

The formation of a trust to hold and manage something, especially one that has monopolistic control.

(intellectual property law) An intellectual property right in certain legal systems, to protect invention, very similar to the patent, but usually with shorter term and less stringent patentability requirements.