ILEC
Unit 11: intellectual property
Unit 11: intellectual property
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| Language | English |
| Category | English |
| Level | Other |
| Created / Updated | 24.11.2011 / 06.12.2011 |
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intellectual property
geistiges Eigentum
Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property rights include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets in some jurisdictions.
passing off
Passing off is a common law tort which can be used to enforce unregistered trademark rights. The tort of passing off protects the goodwill of a trader from a misrepresentation that causes damage to goodwill.
The law of passing off prevents one person from misrepresenting his or her goods or services as being the goods and services of the claimant, and also prevents one person from holding out his or her goods or services as having some association or connection with the plaintiff when this is not true.
distinctive (the mark must be distinctive)
unterscheidungsfähig
having a special quality, character, or appearance that is different and easy to recognize:
deception
Täuschung / Irreführung
the act of deliberately making someone believe something that is not true.
cybersquatting
Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.
injunction
einstweillige / gerichtliche Verfügung
law: an order given by a court which tells someone not to do something:
renewal (of a trade mark)
Erneuerung
expiry
Verfall / Ablauf
the date something stops being valid or ends.
infringe, to infringe sth
etwas verletzen, übertreten, gegen etwas verstossen
to do something that is against a law or someone's legal rights.
violate, to violate sth
etwas missachten, übertreten
to disobey or do something against an official agreement, law, principle etc.
to encroach sth
etwas missbrauchen
to gradually take more of someone's time, possessions, rights etc than you should.
for instance
zum Beispiel,
for example
prerequisite
Voraussetzung / Bedingung
something that is necessary before something else can happen or be done.
misappropriate
veruntreuen, unterschlagen
to dishonestly take something that someone has trusted you with, especially money or goods that belong to your employer [= embezzle]:
eligible
qualifiziert, berechtigt
someone who is eligible for something is able or allowed to do it, for example because they are the right age.
to allege
behaupten
to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong, although it has not been proved.
