Intellectual property law

A patent (/ˈpætənt/ or /ˈpeɪtənt/) is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.

A royalty is a payment made by one party, the licensee or franchisee to another that owns a particular asset, the licensor or franchisor for the right to ongoing use of that asset.

A certification mark on a commercial product often indicates the existence of an accepted product standard and a claim that the manufacturer has tested the product to verify compliance with that standard.

WIPO Lex is an online database of national legislation and international treaties in the field of intellectual property.

In copyright law, related rights (or neighbouring rights) are the rights of a creative work not connected with the work's actual author.

Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the processes of extracting knowledge or design information from anything man-made and re-producing it or re-producing anything based on the extracted information.

World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on 26 April.

The legal name of a business is the name under which the business conducts its operations.

The registered trademark symbol (®) is a symbol that provides notice that the preceding word or symbol is a trademark or service mark that has been registered with a national trademark office.

The term collaborative writing refers to projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a multinational treaty for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement.

A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing an opposition.

In Anglo-Saxon law, an exclusive right is a de facto, non-tangible prerogative existing in law (that is, the power or, in a wider sense, right) to perform an action or acquire a benefit and to permit or deny others the right to perform the same action or to acquire the same benefit.

The Madrid system (officially the Madrid system for the international registration of marks) is the primary international system for facilitating the registration of trademarks in multiple jurisdictions around the world.

The Marrakesh VIP Treaty (formally the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities, colloquially MVT) is a treaty on copyright adopted in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 28 June 2013.

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.

A sui generis database right is considered to be a property right, comparable to but distinct from copyright, that exists to recognise the investment that is made in compiling a database, even when this does not involve the "creative" aspect that is reflected by copyright.

Polish Society of Authors and Composers (Związek Autorów i Kompozytorów Scenicznych, ZAiKS) is a Polish organization representing artists and composers with the mission of "defending their copyright rights".

The Church of Spiritual Technology, also known as CST, is a California 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, incorporated in 1982, which owns all the copyrights of the estate of L.

Copyright term is the length of time copyright subsists in a work before it passes into the public domain.

Sweat of the brow is an intellectual property law doctrine, chiefly related to copyright law.

A parallel import is a non-counterfeit product imported from another country without the permission of the intellectual property owner.

Nick Ashton-Hart is the Geneva Representative of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA).

Maverickeye UG (or Maverickeye) is a copyright enforcement company that is based in Germany.

A Public Lending Right (PLR) programme, is a programme intended to either compensate authors for the potential loss of sales from their works being available in public libraries, or as a governmental support of the arts, through support of works available in public libraries, such as books, music and artwork.

Paid content is content on the Internet – such as text, graphics, video and downloads – which is paid for.

The Religious Technology Center (RTC) is an American non-profit corporation that was founded in 1982 by the Church of Scientology to control and oversee the use of all of the trademarks, symbols and texts of Scientology and Dianetics.

LexInnova Technologies, LLC, is a legal services and technology consulting company headquartered in Houston, Texas.

The open-source model is a more decentralized model of production, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies.

In general, the term credit in the artistic or intellectual sense refers to an acknowledgement of those who contributed to a work, whether through ideas or in a more direct sense.

In music, appropriation is the use of borrowed elements (aspects or techniques) in the creation of a new piece, and is an example of cultural appropriation.

iRunway is a boutique technology, finance and litigation consulting firm with primary expertise in intellectual property.