Intellectual Property

Our Intellectual Property Glossary

 

This requires a defendant to allow a claimant’s solicitors to search the defendant's premises and remove all items covered by the order. These are now known as Search...

 

Trademark coexistence describes a situation in which two different enterprises use a similar or identical trademark to market a product or service without necessarily interfering with each other’s...

 

This term describes the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified...

 

This protects material, such as literature, art, music, sound recordings, films and broadcasts from being copied without...

 

A free, automatic right which is bestowed on the creator following the creation of an original...

 

An investigation undertaken to assess the strengths and weaknesses of an intellectual property...

EPO 

 

European Patent Office - the patent granting authority for...

 

This term refers to a doctrine of limitations and exceptions to copyright - which allows limited copying without permission provided it is fair and the commercial interests of the rights holder are not...

 

This refers to a product of creative or intellectual endeavour, including an innovation, design, trading style, artistic work or literary...

 

Business assets derived from intellectual property...

 

A legal right to protect a form of intellectual property - such as a patent right, design right, trade mark right or...

 

This refers to an unauthorised use of intellectual...

 

This is a new device, method, or process developed from study and...

 

A formal letter consenting to the use and/or registration of another party's trade...

 

The system which offers a trademark owner the possibility to have his trademark protected in several countries by simply filing one application directly with his own national or regional trademark...

 

This refers to an Intellectual Property...

OHIM 

 

Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market - the trademark and industrial designs registry for the internal market of the European...

 

This prevents one person from misrepresenting their goods or services as being the goods and services of another party where this is not actually the case This is when someone tries to sell their products using the name or trade mark of another...

Patent 

 

This is an exclusive right assigned to an inventor which protects their invention from being replicated, user or sold without their...

 

Someone who has the qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent...

 

The process of finding out if an invention is actually...

 

Someone who is fully qualified to act before the European Patent...

 

Intellectual property which has no current "owner" is considered to be in the Public...

 

This bestows a monopoly right for the look of a product, protecting both the shape and the pattern or...

 

These protect signs that can distinguish the goods and services of one trader from those of...

 

Someone who is qualified to act for the owners of trade mark and other intellectual property...

WIPO 

 

World Intellectual Property Organization - the body responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the...