Clean room is a method of developing proprietary material in which a development team works in an isolated environment to ensure that the work is authentic and is not copied. The purpose is to provide evidence that similarities to others...
trademark law
collective mark
Collective mark is a mark used only by the members of an association, cooperative or other collective organization. A collective organization may include an association, union, cooperative, fraternal society or other organized groups. Like...
collective membership mark
Collective membership mark is a mark used only by the members of an association, cooperative or other collective organization. A collective organization may include an association, union, cooperative, fraternal society or other organized...
confusingly similar
Confusingly similar, is a standard test that is applied to see whether a potential trademark conflicts with an existing trademark for the trademark registration purpose.
An example of confusingly similar in trademark law is...
contributory infringement
Overview
Contributory infringement is a form of secondary liability for direct infringement of a patent, copyright, or trademark. It is a means by which a person may be held liable for infringement even though they did not actually engage in...
counsel of record
The counsel of record, also known as attorney of record, is the lawyer who appears in court or receives pleadings and other formal documents on a party's behalf.
In People v. Macrander, 828 P.2d 234, the Supreme Court of...
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
The Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was the United States court in Washington, D.C. with jurisdiction over all decisions from the U.S. Customs Court (USCC) (renamed in 1980 the Court of International Trade (CIT)) and decisions by the...
cross-licensing
Cross Licensing refers to the cross-license agreement between patentees, entered into for purposes of avoiding litigation concerning conflicting patents. It helps preserve the financial incentives for inventors to commercialize their existing...
cybersquatting
Cybersquatting occurs when a person other than the owner of a well-known trademark registers that trademark as an Internet domain name and then attempts to profit from it either by ransoming the domain name back to the trademark owner or by...
descriptive
The nature of a statement that claims to describe reality. A descriptive theory is one that claims to describe how things really are, as opposed to how they should be. See also: prescriptive (contrast).
Descriptive, in law,...