Intellectual Property
n. (Law) ownership of inventions or ideas (such as the rights of creators), impalpable property resulting from creativity, property resulting from the work of a person's intellect or mind | ||||
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<legal> (IP) The ownership of ideas and control over the tangible or virtual representation of those ideas. Use of another person's intellectual property may or may not involve royalty payments or permission, but should always include proper credit to the source.
(1997-03-27)
| INTERNET TERMS&ACRONYMSV1.0 |
The concept of legal protection for original creations.It encompasses copyright,trademarks,and patents.
| WordNet 2.0 |
Noun
1. intangible property that is the result of creativity (such as patents or trademarks or copyrights)
(hypernym) property, belongings, holding, material possession
| hEnglish - advanced version |
intellectual property
(ip) the ownership of ideas and control over the tangible or virtual representation of those ideas. use of another person's intellectual property may or may not involve royalty payments or permission, but should always include proper credit to the source.
| The 'Lectric Law Library |
Property that can be protected under federal law, including copyrightable works, ideas, discoveries, and inventions. Such property would include novels, sound recordings, a new type of mousetrap, or a cure for a disease.
| Duhaime.org Legal Dictionary |
As a type of property, intellectual property has that unique characteristic of being ethereal; of the mind, intangible, with no corporeal existence; hence, 'intellectual property'. - (read more on Intellectual Property)
| USPTO Patent and Trademark Glossary |
Creations of the mind - creative works or ideas embodied in a form that can be shared or can enable others to recreate, emulate, or manufacture them. There are four ways to protect intellectual property - patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secrets
Context: General
| European Commission Glossary of Justice and home affairs |
Creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce; examples of ways such property is protected are patents, trademarks, and copyright. (See Organised crime: Cybercrime)
| PATENTSCOPE® Glossary |
Creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.
Intellectual property is divided into two categories:
1. Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and
2. Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs.
| UNODC Money-Laundering Terms |
A collective term used to refer to new ideas, inventions, designs, writings, film and others protected by copyright, patents, trade-marks, etc.
| Raynet Business & Marketing Glossary |
any intangible asset that consists of human knowledge and ideas.
| EU English Glossary |
Like tangible goods, intellectual creations can constitute property which is designated "intellectual property". Intellectual property traditionally covers two areas:
industrial property which mainly comprises patents, designs and models, manufacturers and service brands and protected designations of origin;
copyright and related rights which apply to all literary and artistic works.
This field covers cultural, social and technological issues of great importance which have to be taken into account when drawing up a coherent policy in this area. Thus, on the question of industrial property, Community regulations have endeavoured to harmonise the conditions for the registration of trademarks and extend to holders the protection conferred by a single set of rules. A Regulation introducing a Community design was also adopted in December 2001. In order to encourage innovation, the Union is also working on the creation of a Community patent.
On the question of copyright and related rights, harmonised Community legislation was drawn up in areas where legal uncertainty was likely to dissuade holders from exploiting rights in certain territories (computer programmes and databases, satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission, rental right and lending right and certain related rights). European legislation was then adapted to take account of the new challenges posed by technological progress and the information society. Measures aimed at combating counterfeiting and piracy have moreover been taken at European level.
See:
Information society
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Ownership of the legal rights to possess, use, or dispose of products created by human ingenuity, including patents, trademarks and copyrights.
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
- For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (film).
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