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Entries Categorized: Intellectual Property (22)
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Bare Licensee
Definition of Bare Licensee In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Bare Licensee : A person who uses or occupies land by permission of the owner but has no legal or equitable interest in it. Such permission is personal to him; thus he cannot transfer it. He [...]Conveyancing
Definition of Conveyancing In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Conveyancing : The procedures involved in validly creating, extinguishing, and transferring ownership of interests in land. Only a practising solicitor or *licensed conveyancer may charge a fee [...]Copyright
Definition of Copyright In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Copyright : The exclusive right to reproduce or authorize others to reproduce artistic, dramatic, literary, or musical works. It is conferred by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which [...]Data
Diversity data in relation with the Courts and Tribunals in England The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), a non-departmental public body, publishes a bulletin of Official Statistics, covering the diversity profile of selection exercises twice a year. The period 1 April 2014 to 30 [...]Database
Definition of Database In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Database : An organized collection of information held on a computer. Databases are usually protected by *copyright in the UK under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the EU Directive [...]Entertainment
Entertainment building in the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 Meaning of Entertainment building in the context of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003: a place of entertainment or recreation other than sports stadia, including bingo halls, broadcasting, recording and film studios open to the public, [...]Exhaustion of Rights
Definition of Exhaustion of Rights In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Exhaustion of Rights : A free-trade principle which holds that, once goods are put on the market, owners of *intellectual property rights in those goods, who made the goods or allowed [...]Fair
Concept of Fair The following is an old definition of Fair [1], a term which has several meanings:1, (adjetive) Equal; just; proper; reasonable; equitable. See Equity. Fair abridgment. A real substantial condensation of copyrighted materials, as the result of labor and judgment. See Abridge. [...]Grant
Definition of Grant In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Grant : 1. The creation or transfer of the ownership of property (e.g. an estate or interest in land) by written instrument; for example, the grant of a lease. (See also lie in grant). 2. A [...]Hacking
Definition of Hacking In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Hacking : Gaining unauthorized access to a computer system. This is a summary offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Under this Act it is also an offence, triable summarily or on indictment, to [...]Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property Rights in Contract Formation It is often advisable to include this term in any contract. In Pinsent Mason's words:Many commercial contracts include a clause stating who will own the intellectual property rights to any products provided under the contracts. This clause [...]Licensing
The Licensing Act 2003 was one of the largest revamps in the United Kingdom licensing laws for half a millennium. The Licensing Act 1953 consolidating some of the previous law and 1964 producing a new Licensing Act which in 2005 passed into history At the end of 2005 the United Kingdom [...]List of Courts
UK Courts House of Lords Privy Council Supreme Court England and Wales Senior Courts Court of Appeal Crown Court High Court – Chancery Division High Court – Family Division High Court – Queen’s Bench Division England and Wales Subordinate and Other Courts County Court [...]List of England and Wales Case Law Reports
England and Wales Primary Case Law Series England and Wales Primary Case Law The most authoritative current report series including the ICLR series and the All England Reports as well as historical series. , Coverage, Publisher, Full Text Available at:, , , , , [...]List of Law Journal Articles Publication Frequency
List of Legal Periodicals´ Articles Publication Frequency Title, Publication Frequency, American Business Law Journal, Quarterly, American Law and Economics Review, 2 issues per annum, Bar Review, 6 issues per annum, British Journal of Criminology, 6 issues per [...]Patent
Concept of Patent The following is an old definition of Patent [1], a term which has several meanings:1 (1) Open to inspection; not closed by sealing. Grants by the king of lands, honors, liberties, franchises, etc., are contained in charters or letters-patent, that is, open letters: not [...]Patent System
History of the Patent System in England The following information about Patents, and the Patent System. is from the Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers (1899). The origin of the patent [...]Real Estate License
Most Popular Entries related to Real Estate License Real Estate Law (in the United Kingdom) Property Law (in the United Kingdom) Real Estate Law Career (in the United Kingdom) Real Estate Law Terms (in the United Kingdom) Real Estate Law School (in the United Kingdom) Real Estate [...]Royalty
Meaning of Royalty The following is an old definition of Royalty [1]: A prerogative or superiority of the king; also, the amount due to the lessor of a mine. See Mines. In modern usage, a sumpaid by one who uses the patent of another, at a certain rate for each article manufactured; also, the [...]Tobacco
Trade-mark
Meaning of Trade-mark The following is an old definition of Trade-mark [1]: A mark by which one's wares are known in trade. A word, mark, or device adopted by a manufacturer or vendor to distinguish his production from other productions of the same article. Every one is at liberty to affix to [...]In Perpetual Beta
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