Collecting Societies
See Performing Rights Society.
Category: Intellectual Property
Collective Mark
A trademark applied for by an association of individuals or …
Collective Work
A work created by multiple authors – often conflated imprecisely …
Colorable/Colourable Argument/Claim
A legal argument or assertion of fact that is not …
Comity, Judicial
Principle on which one court will often decline to hear …
Commercial Success
See Proof of Success; Secondary Considerations.
Commercial Use, First
Trademark law term. Trademarks cannot be applied for to simply …
Commercially Essential Patent
Generally used to describe a patent which it is not …
Commercially Essential Vital Improvement
See Economically Vital Improvement/Patent.
Common Law Trademark
An unregistered trademark in a “common law country,” i.e., a …