Glossary Terms Related To Downloading Restrictions & Copyright Topics

Design Patent

Definition:
A government grant of exclusive rights in a novel, nonobvious, and ornamental industrial design. A design patent confers the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling designs that closely resemble the patented design.

Novelty

Definition:
One of the three conditions that an invention must meet in order to be patentable. Novelty is present if every element of the claimed invention is not disclosed in a single piece of prior art.

Newspaper

Definition:
A serial publication which is designed to be a primary source of written information on current events connected with public affairs, that are local, national, and/or international in scope.

Special 301

Definition:
A statute that requires the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to identify, on an annual basis, those foreign territories that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights or fair and equitable market access for Americans relying on intellectual property protection.

First Sale Doctrine

Definition:
An exception to the exclusive right of a copyright owner to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work. Under this principle, the copyright owner has the right to sell a copy of a book but not the right to control subsequent sales of that copy.

Novelty

Definition:
"One of the three conditions that an invention must meet in order to be patentable. Novelty is present if every element of the claimed invention is not disclosed in a single piece of prior art."



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