Title :
A Lexicon of Patent Jargon [IP Corner]
Abstract :
Often when I am doing work related to patents and IP, I find myself talking a different language. It is a strange legal dialect that patent lawyers have developed over many years. Now while its original purpose was likely to abstract the legal process and define a set of legal concepts that simplified discussions of cases, it has achieved a secondary goal of confounding and confusing engineers the world over.
Keywords :
patents; IP; legal concepts; legal dialect; legal process; patent jargon; patent lawyers; Europe; Law; Patents; Standards; Technological innovation;
Journal_Title :
Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCE.2014.2317934
