Glossary Terms Related To Federal Statutory Protection & Copyright Topics

Office Action

Definition:
A letter from a trademark examining attorney setting forth the legal status of a trademark application. There are several types of Office actions: examiner’s amendments, priority actions, non-final Office actions, final Office actions, and suspension inquiry letters.

License

Definition:
A permission to use an intellectual property right, under defined conditions -- as to time, context, market line, or territory. In intellectual property law, important distinctions exist between "exclusive licenses" and "nonexclusive licenses."

Assignment

Definition:
A transfer of rights in intellectual property. An assignment of a patent, for example, is a transfer of sufficient rights so that the recipient has title to the patent.

Misappropriation

Definition:
A common-law form of unfair competition where the defendant has copied or appropriated some item or creation of the plaintiff that is not protected by either patent law, copyright law, trademark law, or any other traditional theory of exclusive rights.

Best Mode

Definition:
A condition for the grant of a valid patent. An inventor must describe the best method he or she knows for carrying out the invention.

Bootleg

Definition:
Bootleg recordings are the unauthorized recordings of live concerts, or musical broadcasts on radio or television, that are duplicated and sold without the permission of the artist, composer or record company.



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