Offenses of using another person's creative work, mark, invention or name without right, including copyright, trademark and patent infringement and the registering of domain names that imitate or trade on another's name. An offense belongs here when the object is intellectual property or a name. It excludes the theft of physical goods. Entries placed here are Copyright Infringement, Trademark Infringement, Patent Infringement, Intellectual property infringement, Cybersquatting and Typosquatting.
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Biopiracy (Wikipedia)
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Biopiracy is the unauthorized appropriation of knowledge and genetic resources of farming and indigenous communities
Intellectual Property Infringement (Wikipedia)
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An intellectual property (IP) infringement or an intellectual property theft is the unauthorized use, exploitation, or violation of an intellectual property right.
Wikipedia: Trademark infringement
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Trademark infringement is a violation of the exclusive rights attached to a trademark without the authorization of the trademark owner or any licensees (provided that such authorization was within the scope of the licence).
Patent infringement (Wikipedia)
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Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of, for example, making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product.
USLegal, Inc.: Typosquatting Law and Legal Definition
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Typosquatting is the process of acquiring misspellings of a domain name in the hopes of catching and exploiting traffic intended for another website.
USLegal, Inc.: Copyright Infringement Law and Legal Definition
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Copyright infringement is the act of violating the copyright owner’s exclusive right through unauthorized or prohibited use of copyrighted material.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Cybersquatting (Wex Legal Dictionary)
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Cybersquatting occurs when a person other than the owner of a well-known trademark registers that trademark as an Internet domain name and then attempts to profit from it.
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