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Arbitration n.
1. A dispute resolution process in which the disputing parties choose one or more neutral parties to make a final binding decision resolving the dispute.
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Barrister n. English law.
1. In England or Northern Ireland, a lawyer who is admitted to plead at the bar and who may argue cases in superior courts.
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Commercial Law
1. The substantive law dealing with the sale and distribution of goods, the financing of credit transactions on the security of goods sold, and negotiable instruments. — Also termed mercantile law.
2. Law Merchant.
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Copyright n.
1. The right to copy; specifically a property right in an original work of authorship (including literary, musical, dramatic, choreographic, pictorial, graphic, sculptural, and architectural works; motion pictures and other audiovisual works; and sound recordings) fixed in any tangible medium of expression, giving the holder the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, perform, and display the work.
2. The body of law relating to such works.
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Defendant
1. A person sued in a civil proceeding or accused in a criminal proceeding.
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Dispute n.
1. A conflict or controversy, esp. one that has given rise to a particular lawsuit.
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Drafting
1. The skill, technique, and practice of preparing operative legal documents such as statutes, rules, regulations, contracts, and wills setting forth the rights, duties, privileges, and liabilities of people and legal entities.
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Infringement n. Intellectual property.
1. An act that interferes with one of the exclusive rights of a patent, copyright, or trademark owner.
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Intellectual Property
1. A category of intangible rights protecting commercially valuable products of the human intellect.
2. A commercially valuable product of the human intellect, in a concrete or abstract form, such as copyrightable work, a protectable trademark, a patentable invention, or a trade secret.
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Inter Partes adv.
1. [Latin "between parties"] Between two or more parties; with two or more parties in a transaction.
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Inter Partes Review Patents.
1. An administrative procedure in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office whereby the validity of an issued or reissued patent may be challenged on the basis of prior-art patents and printed publications.
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Litigation n.
1. The process of carrying on a lawsuit.
2. A lawsuit itself.
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Opinion
1. A court's written statement explaining its decision in a given case, usu. including the statement of facts, points of law, rational, and dicta. — Also termed judicial opinion.
2. A formal expression of judgement or advice based on an expert's special knowledge; esp., a document, usu. prepared at a client's request, containing a lawyer's understanding of the law that applies to a particular case. — Also termed opinion letter.
3. A person's thought, belief, or inference, esp. a witness's view about a facts in dispute, as opposed to a personal knowledge of the facts themselves. — Also termed (in sense 3) conclusion.
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Patent n.
1. The governmental grant of a right, privilege, or authority.
2. The official document so granting. — Also termed public grant.
3. The right to exclude others from making, using, marketing, selling, offering for sale, or importing an invention for a specific period (20 years from the date of filing), granted by the federal government to the inventor if the device or process is novel, useful, and nonobvious. — Also termed patent of invention; patent right; patent grant.
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Petition n.
1. A formal written request presented to a court or other official body.
2. In some states, the first pleading in a lawsuit; complaint.
3. Patents. A patent applicant's request to a patent office's administrative head for supervision of a procedural or jurisdictional matter related to the patent application.
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Plaintiff
1. The party who brings a civil suit in a court of law.
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Trademark n.
1. A word, phrase, logo, or other sensory symbol used by a manufacturer or seller to distinguish its products or services from those of others. — Often shortened to mark.
2. The body of law dealing with how businesses distinctively identify their products.