Intellectual property glossary

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This intellectual property glossary, optimized to reveal the world of patents with precision, is designed for inventors, entrepreneurs and the curious.
Dive into the heart of intellectual property with the unique glossary from our firm, experts in the legal protection of innovation and creativity. Our rigorous selection of terms, from "Non-disclosure Agreement" to "USPTO", is the essential bridge to an informed understanding of the rights relating to your creations and innovations.

A

Action for declaration of non-infringement

Action for patent infringement

Agreement on a Unified Patent Court

Annuity

Application invention

Arbitration

Art (person skilled in the)

Assignment

Assignment agreement

B

Basic Patent

C

Claims

Coexistence agreement

Combination (invention of)

Community designs

Computer-implemented invention

Confidentiality agreement

Consortium agreement

Corporate name

Counterclaim for annulment

Saisie-contrefaçon

Infringment

D

Decompilation

Description

Design

Design assignment agreement

Design infringement

Design infringement action

Design licence

Design licensing agreement

Designation of origin

Device (Invention)

Disclosure

Discovery

Distinctive character

Divisional patent application

Domain name

E

EPO (European Patent Office)

EUIPO

Employee invention

Enveloppe Soleau

European patent

European trademark

Extension of patent

Extension of the patent application

F

FRAND licence

Freedom to operate (study)

French patent

G

Good faith (infringement)

Good morals

I

INPI

IT maintenance contract

Improvement to a Patent

Indication of controlled origin

Individual character

Industrial application

Industrial property

Industrial property attorney

Infringement (of a patent)

Infringement action

Innovation

Intellectual property

Intellectual property lawyer

Internal right of priority

International trademark

Invention

Invention of mission

Inventive step / non-obviousness

Inventor

Grant of the patent

K

Know-how

Know-how contract

L

Lawyer specialized in commercial law

Licence

Licence required

License agreement

Licensing of a trademark

Literary and artistic property

M

Marketing authorisation ("MA")

N

Novelty

O

Opposition to the grant of a patent

Opt-out

Out-of-mission invention

P

PCT (Patent Coopération Treaty)

Parasitism

Patent

Patent Pool

Patent application

Patent assignment agreement

Patent assignment agreement

Patent licence agreement

Patent licence agreement

Patent licensing

Patent limitation

Patent pledge

Patent rights

Patent rights

Patent troll

Patentability

Patents portfolio

Payback of the Patent

Plant Variety Right (PVR)

Plausibility

Preliminary injunction

Preventive memory

Prior art

Priority right (patent)

Process invention

Product invention

Public domain

R

Rejection of a Patent application

Renewal fees

Reverse engineering

Revocation action

Revocation of the patent

Right of prior possession

Right of priority (design trademark)

S

Selection invention

Sign

Standard Essential Patent

State of the art

Sufficiency of description

Supplementary Protection Certificate

T

TRIPS Agreement

Technical features

Technology transfer agreement

The Hague System

The International Patent Classification (IPC)

Trade secrets

Trademark

Trademark assignment contract

Trademark clearance searches

Trademark infringement

Trademark infringement action

Trademark licensing agreement

Trading name

Transfer of brand

Transfer of designs

Transfer of patent

U

USPTO

Unfair competition

Unified Patent Court

Unitary patent

Unitary patent infringement

Unity of invention

Utility certificate

W

WIPO