IP Key Terms

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Across
  1. 4. An intellectual property right granted by the government of a nation to an inventor that gives him or her the exclusive right to the invention for up to 20 years, in exchange for disclosing the details of the new technology to society for its ultimate benefit.
  2. 9. Regulations that forced patentees to manufacture products based on their patents within two or three years of issuance or lose their patent rights.
  3. 12. A process in which the parties to a dispute present arguments and evidence to a dispute resolution practitioner (the arbitrator) who makes a determination.
  4. 14. An intellectual property right granted by a government to an individual, business, or legal entity that creates and uses a distinctive word, name, symbol, or device to distinguish its products or services from those from any other entity in the marketplace.
  5. 15. An intellectual property right granted by a government to the author of an original literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, or other eligible creative work.
  6. 16. A legal document filed that sets out why the filing party believes their claim against the defendant is valid.
  7. 17. A law that requires that the intellectual property to be protected not publicly disclosed.
  8. 18. An exchange between adversaries overseen by an individual with expertise and/or training in helping parties reach an agreement.
  9. 22. The party that brings a legal action or suit in a court.
  10. 23. An agreement made with the patent owner for permission to make, use, offer to sell, sell or import the patented invention, usually based upon payment of a fee.
  11. 24. The party against which an action is brought.
  12. 25. A patent requirement that ensures that the idea is usable and beneficial.
  13. 26. The most common type of patents, which preclude others from making, using, or selling the invention during the term of the patent, which begins on the grant date and ends 20 years from the filing date.
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  1. 1. Physical things, manufactures, or compositions of matter.
  2. 2. A patent requirement that ensures that the idea is inventive.
  3. 3. An action brought in court to enforce a particular right
  4. 5. A patent requirement that ensures that the idea is new.
  5. 6. A strict liability violation where you do not need to know that you are infringing a patent, or that a patent even exists to be liable for patent infringement.
  6. 7. The premise that people will be encouraged to invent new products and services that benefit society if they are likely to profit by doing so.
  7. 8. Money by offered the alleged infringer a license to practice your invention.
  8. 10. Allow the use of portions of copyrighted material for specific purposes, including, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research, that ultimately serves the public interest in doing so.
  9. 11. The premise that the product of mental labor is by all rights the property of its creator, no less than the product of physical labor is the property of its creator (or of the person who purchases it from that creator).
  10. 13. Creations of intellect, such as inventions and artistic works.
  11. 19. A means to an end—either a means of doing something new, like being able to pay for purchases directly from your smartphone, or a new way of doing something old, like using “pinch, swipe, and zoom” gestures on a touchscreen, rather than clicking drop-down menus, to manipulate text and images on a smartphone.
  12. 20. A type of patent granted to protect new, original, and non-obvious ornamental designs for articles of manufacture.
  13. 21. A type of patent to protect new species of plants. The criteria is novelty, distinctiveness, and non-obviousness.