Innovation (Technological)
- Use for innovation in technology, science, etc. For social innovation, use "Social change".
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- Change, Technological
- Technological change
Insolvency practitioners (Industry)
Insurance broking (Industry)
Integrated circuit rights
Intellectual capital
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Intellectual property
- Use for general discussion of intangible property. For real property and personal property, excluding intangible property, use "Property". For specific types of intangible property, use "Circuit layout rights", "Copyright", "Database rights", "Industrial designs", "Intellectual property", "Moral rights", "Neighbouring rights", "Patents", "Personality rights", "Plant breeder's rights", "Trade marks", "Trade secrets", or other relevant headings, as appropriate.
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Intellectual property abuse
- Use to describe abuse of monopoly rights by rights owners. Include here unjustified threats or allegations of intellectual property infringement. For abuse of the various intellectual property rights by end users, competitors, etc., use "Circuit layout infringement", "Copyright infringement", "Industrial design infringement", "Intellectual property infringement", "Patent infringement", "Plant rights infringement" or "Trade mark infringement", as appropriate.
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- Abuse of intellectual property rights
- Groundless threats
- Threats to sue
- Unjustified threats
Intellectual property assignment
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- Assignment of intellectual property rights
- Sale of intellectual property rights
Intellectual property auctions
Intellectual property awareness
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- Intellectual property marketing
Intellectual property brokering
Intellectual property classification
Intellectual property commercialisation
Intellectual property databases
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- Electronic databases
- Online databases
Intellectual property education
Intellectual property enforcement
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Intellectual property entitlement
- Use to describe the legal right of a person or entity to own intellectual property or an intellectual property application. Often relates to cases between employers and employees or ex-employees. For the exclusive rights that may be exercised by rights owners, use "Intellectual property rights". For matters relating to the actual ownership of an intellectual property right, use "Intellectual property ownership".
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- Entitlement to intellectual property
Intellectual property exchanges
Intellectual property exhaustion
- Use to describe the principle whereby intellectual rights in a product cease to have effect once it has been sold to the end user, thus preventing the rights owner from bringing infringement or other actions against the user based on their subsequent usage, repair or further sale of that item. For the expiry of an intellectual property right at the conclusion of its normal term, use "Intellectual property expiry".
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- Exhaustion of intellectual property rights
Intellectual property expiry
- Use to describe the expiry of an intellectual property right at the conclusion of its normal term. For the termination of subsequent intellectual property rights through the sale of that product or service, use "Intellectual property exhaustion".
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- Expiry of intellectual property rights
Intellectual property exploitation
Intellectual property humour
Intellectual property in the media
- Use to describe the coverage of intellectual property issues in the media, whether traditional mass media (including radio, television, newspapers, etc.) or modern Internet media (including blogs, webzines, electronic journals, webcasts, social networking, etc.).
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- Intellectual property journalism
Intellectual property industry
- May be used as floating term. Include here: intellectual property attorneys and lawyers; intellectual property managers; professional intellectual property bodies, whether local or international; searching firms; etc.
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- Industrial property industry
- Searchers, Intellectual property (Industry)
Intellectual property infringement
- Use to describe misuse or abuse of intellectual property rights by non-owners (e.g. end-users, competitors). For abuse of intellectual property rights by rights owners, use "Intellectual property abuse".
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Intellectual property investment
Intellectual property journalism
Intellectual property law
- Use to describe the branch of property law that deals with the legal entitlements associated with the expressed form of original ideas, or some other form of intangible subject matter.
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- Intellectual property rights--law and legislation
- Intellectual property--law and legislation
- Law, Intellectual property
Intellectual property leasing
Intellectual property licensing
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- Intellectual property leasing
- Intellectual property royalties
- Leasing of intellectual property
- Licensing of intellectual property
- Royalties for intellectual property
Intellectual property litigation
- Use to describe the process of prosecuting or defending open intellectual property legal actions. For reports of decided intellectual property cases, use "Intellectual property--case law".
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- Declaratory judgments (Intellectual property)
- Declaratory rulings (Intellectual property)
- Intellectual property prosecution
Intellectual property management
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- Commercialisation of intellectual policy
- Exploitation of intellectual property
- Intellectual property commercialisation
- Intellectual property exploitation
- Intellectual property rights--management
- Intellectual property strategy
- Intellectual property--management
Intellectual property marketing
Intellectual property markets
- Use to describe marketplaces through which intellectual property producers may sell, trade or licence their intellectual property. Include here use of intellectual property as a financial security. For the sale of intellectual property rights, use "Circuit layout assignment", "Copyright assignment", "Industrial design assignment", "Intellectual property assignment", "Patent assignment", "Plant rights assignment" or "Trade mark assignment", as appropriate. For the leasing of intellectual property, use "Circuit layout licensing", "Compulsory licensing", "Copyright licensing", "Industrial design licensing", "Intellectual property licensing", "Patent licensing", "Plant rights licensing" or "Trade mark licensing", as appropriate.
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- Auctions (Intellectual property)
- Intellectual property auctions
- Intellectual property brokering
- Intellectual property exchanges
- Intellectual property investment
- Intellectual property securities
- Intellectual property securitisation
- Intellectual property stock exchanges
- Intellectual property trading
- International intellectual property markets
- Markets for intellectual property
- Securities (Intellectual property)
- Stock exchanges for intellectual property
- Trading of intellectual property
Intellectual property offices
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- Circuit layout offices
- Copyright offices
- Industrial design offices
- Industrial property offices
- Patent offices
- Plant rights offices
- Trade mark offices
Intellectual property offices staff
Intellectual property ownership
- Use for matters relating to the actual ownership of an intellectual property right. For the legal right to own an intellectual property right or an intellectual property application, use "Intellectual property entitlement". For the exclusive rights that may be exercised by rights owners, use "Intellectual property rights".
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Intellectual property prosecution
Intellectual property protection
Intellectual property rights
- Use for both general discussion of intellectual property rights, as well as the exclusive rights that may be exercised by rights owners. For general discussion of a specific type of intellectual property right, use "Circuit layout rights", "Copyright", "Industrial designs", "Patents", "Plant breeder's rights" or "Trade marks", as appropriate. For discussion of the exclusive rights that may be exercised by owners of a specific type of intellectual property right, use "Circuit layout owners' rights", "Copyright owners' rights", "Industrial design owners' rights", "Patent owners' rights", "Plant rights owners' rights" or "Trade mark owners' rights", as appropriate.
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- Intellectual property protection
Intellectual property rights--law and legislation
Intellectual property rights--management
Intellectual property royalties
Intellectual property searching
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Intellectual property securities
Intellectual property securitisation
Intellectual property stock exchanges
Intellectual property strategy
Intellectual property systems
- Use for intellectual property regulatory regimes of specific countries, regions, or other geographical or political entities. For intellectual property electronic information systems, use "Intellectual property databases".
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Intellectual property trading
Intellectual property use
- Use to describe the legal usage of intellectual property rights. Use may be either by the rights owner or by third parties, and may refer to either use of a specific right or usage of intellectual property rights in general. For infringing use of intellectual property by third parties, use "Intellectual property infringement". For abuse of monopoly rights by rights owners, use "Intellectual property abuse".
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- Exercise of intellectual property rights
- Use of intellectual property rights
Intellectual property valuation
Intellectual property value
Intellectual property--law and legislation
Intellectual property--management
Intellectual property--moral aspects
Intellectual property--social aspects
- Use to describe the social justification, morality and societal value of intellectual property. For the financial value of intellectual property rights, use "Value of intellectual property".
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- Intellectual property--moral aspects
- Justification of intellectual property
- Morality of intellectual property
- Social debates on intellectual property
Intention to use (Trade marks)
Inter partes re-examination (Patents)
International industrial design applications
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- Convention applications (Designs)
- Hague Agreement applications
- Hague applications
- International industrial designs
- World industrial designs
International industrial designs
International intellectual property law
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International intellectual property markets
International law
- Use to describe the branch of law that deals with the relationships between states, or between persons or entities in different states, resulting from official rules, treaties, agreements and customs.
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International patent applications
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- Convention applications (Patents)
- International patents
- Patent Cooperation Treaty applications
- PCT applications
- World patents
International plant rights
International plant rights applications
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- International plant rights
- UPOV applications
- World plant rights
International trade
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- Export
- Global trade
- Import
- Multinational trade
International trade mark applications
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- International trade marks
- Madrid applications
- Madrid Protocol applications
- World trade marks
International trade marks
Internet
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Internet of things
- Use to describe the network of physical objects, devices, vehicles, buildings and other items which are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange data.
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- Industrial internet
- Internet of everything
- IoT
- Programmable world
- Wearable technology
Internet service providers
Invalidity (Circuit layouts)
Invalidity (Plant rights)
Inventive step
- Include here prior art.
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- Inventive ingenuity
- Obviousness (Patents)
- Patent obviousness
- Prior art
Investment
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Investment management (Industry)
Investment services (Industry)
