Contents 1 Concepts 2 Jurists, judges, and attorneys 3 Notable court cases and litigants 4 Intellectual property 4.1 Copyright 4.2 Patent 4.3 Trademark 4.4 Trade secret 4.5 Publicity right 4.6 Other 5 Statutes 6 Other: Miscellaneous laws and agencies, etc. 7 Legal terms 7.1 B 7.2 C 7.3 D 7.4 E 7.5 F 7.6 G 7.7 H 7.8 I 7.9 J 7.10 L 7.11 M 7.12 N 7.13 O 7.14 P 7.15 R 7.16 S 7.17 T 7.18 V 7.19 W 8 Treaties

Concepts

• benign discrimination (legal definition)
• chthonic law (related to primitive law)
• condemnation board - mentioned in Richard Mattingly murder case - see Ghits
• fraud law
• dangerousness (legal)
• decennial liability
• disclosure schedule or Schedule of Exceptions
• double actionability
• equitable title
• ex ante regulation (an EU concept, see http://ec.europa.eu/archives/ISPO/infosoc/telecompolicy/review99/pres10-11e0/tsld001.htm)
• familial nexus
• federal navigational servitude
• Free Democratic Order - Freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung, basic pillars of the German constitution such as balance of powers etc.
• heads of loss
• Homine Libero Exhibendo
• inchoate lien
• incrimination - see incriminate and self-incrimination - currently a redirect to crime
• international marriage broker regulation act (IMBRA)
• judicial authority
• juris privat
• Labor Law: Laudermill letters & hearings
• Law of confidence - these?: Duty of confidentiality and Solicitor-client privilege
• legal history of Russia
• legal literacy
• mitigating evidence
• Mexican law - Law of Mexico
• mitigation (legal) - see Extenuating circumstances
• nostrification (of diplomas/academic degrees)
• objective régime (international treaty law)
• origin of law
• natural logorights a natural rights based Libertarian legal theory of IP
• principle of party disposition
• probation hearing – see also order to show cause and probation-revocation hearing
• qualifications for President of the United States – requesting split from Article Two of the United States Constitution and natural-born citizen
• reasonable and probable grounds
• reasonable steps defence
• regulatory procedure
• reliance (legal definition) one method of calculating damages. or Reliance loss or Reliance damages
• Res extra commercium
• selective publication – process by which courts (esp. appellate courts) (in the United States) decide which decisions to report.
• special defence in Scots Law
• Supercomplaint as mentioned in three articles including Energywatch
• Swiss law - Law of Switzerland
• Theory of Liability (legal definition) - Used in Final Judgement against Microsoft by Kollar-Kotelly Civil Action No. 98-1232
• trial as an adult
• vehicle mileage tax trying it in Oregon and Minnesota
• visiting judge (District Courts)

Jurists, judges, and attorneys

• Syed Shabbar Hasan Abidi(Attorney)
• Lea Tsemel (or Leah Tsemel) - famous Israeli lawyer who defends many Palestinian suicide bombers
• Edward Domenic Re (former chief justice of United States Court of International Trade)
• Jason L. Simpson (O.J. Simpson's son)
• Mary Katherine Day-Petrano
• Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. - an important post-war liberal in the US, founder of Americans for Democratic Action, and a civil rights and labor lawyer in Washington. [1] [2] [3]
• Richard Hauser, president of National Legal Center for the Public Interest and former general counsel of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Richard Wilder
• Frank Shepard (Creator of Shepards Citations)
• Gerald Chatham Lead prosecutor as district attorney, 1941-1955, in Emmett Till case (State of Mississippi vs. J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant)
• Sue Hicks (Scopes trial lawyer)
• Roger Vinson
• Alan Vinegrad - Louima Prosecutor
• Andrew Vorzimer
• Joshua Dressler leading scholar in Criminal Law
• Robert Delahunty Professor of law at St. Thomas School of Law (MN)
• Lea Campos Boralevi - Italian writer of a variey of books on law, history and ethics.
• Paul Goldstein (law professor)([4]) - law professor at Stanford; author of: two treatises on copyright law, including International Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice, the definitive reference in international copyright law; a couple textbooks on intellectual property; and two novels centering on intellectual property. Not to be confused with the tennis player.
• Larry Catá Backer - very well known scholar of international law and international legal issues and development
• Raymond Daniel Burke - Baltimore based Lawyer, Political activist, Writer
• Makau W. Mutua - dean, University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York

Notable court cases and litigants

• ACLU v. Zell Miller (1996)
• American Communications Association v. Douds (1950)
• American Isuzu Motors v. Ntsebeza (current, discussed in New York Times May 12, 2008)
• Bartkus v. Illinois (1959)
• Bennett, Coleman and Co. vs Union of India (1986)
• Bernstein, Brenda Joy (B.J.) Genarlow Wilson's Wilson v. State of Georgia attorney and founder of My5th.org (2007)
• Bourgeois v. Peters (2004) Text of decision includes cites to Wikipedia.
• Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)
• Buckley v. Haddock 4th Amendment/Tasers and Torture. http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2008/09/dissenting-judg.html
• Campbell v. Clinton (2000)
• Center for Constitutional Rights v. Bush
• Chandler v. Miller (1997)
• David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt - The libel trial that forced Deborah Lipstadt to prove there is such a thing as historical truth as well as disproving holocaust denial
• Davis v. United States, 495 U.S. 472 (1990) Important case that was the impetus for LDS Church's mission cost equalization program
• Detroit News v. Ashcroft (2002)
• Elektra Records Company v. Gem Electronic Distributors, Inc.
• Ferguson v. Skrupa 372 U.S. 726 (1963), http://www.altlaw.org/v1/cases/397890
• Frankovitch case
• Myra Clark Gaines Succession/property cases. The longest continuous civil litigation in American Legal History with 16 appearances in the Supreme Court, 8 in the Louisiana Supreme Court, and over 200 other suits, spanning 1834 to 1890
• Georgia v. Ashcroft 539 U.S. 461 (2003)
• Gray v. New Hampshire Indemnity Co. ← Please provide a citation for this case so that it can be retrieved, and an article written.
• Jordan Gruver(Southern Poverty Law Center) v. Imperial Klans of America
• Guey Hung Lee v. Johnson Supreme Court rules in favor of desegregating all-Chinese public schools (1971)
• Harter v. Vernon, 101 F.3d 334 (4th Cir. 1996)
• Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District 508 U.S. 384 (1993) (1st Amendment case)
• Laurin v. Oklahoma (1950) One of the civil rights cases that concerned equal education and eventually led to Brown v. Board of Education.
• Leandro v. State of North Carolina (1997, 346 NC 336)
• Adolph Luetgert
• Lugar-Pence bill
• Lynch v.Baxley (Alabama court case concerning the mentally ill)
• Mareva Compania Naviera SA v. International Bulkcarriers SA [1975] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 509
• McCabe v. Atchison, 235 U.S. 151 (1914), http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=235&invol=151
• National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley
• New Bedford Bar Rape
• Nippon Yusen Kaisha v. Karageorgis (1975) 2 Lloyd’s Rep 37
• People (of California) v. Hernandez (1964)
• Popov v. Hayashi (2002)
• Quilici v. Morton Grove (1982)
• Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics (2008, US Supreme Court)
• United States v. Leong (1997)
• United States v. Lilley ← Which one?
• United States v. Schoon (1992) (Indirect civil disobedience)
• Veazie Banks v. Fenno, a U.S. Supreme Court case circa 1870 that upheld the power of Congress to tax currency issued by the states, and thus effectively ended the issuing of state currencies ¹
• Wallace Corp. v. NLRB 323 U.S. 248 (1944)
• Walz v. Tax Commission (1970)
• Linda Walker (2005)
• Joyti De-Laurey (2004)
• The Yankee Candle Co. v. New England Candle Co., 14 F. Supp. 2d 154, 162 (D. Mass. 1998)
• Zadvydas v. Davis (2001)

Intellectual property

Copyright

• Twin Books v. Walt Disney Co.[5]
• Broadcasting Treaty (proposed)
• Copyright Tribunal, The Copyright Tribunal (UK law) [6]
• Copyright World (journal)
• EC Copyright Term Directive (proposed)
• Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) [7]
• Urheberrechtsgesetz (German copyright law)

Patent

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/USPTO

• Arrangements for deposit accounts (or ADA, special regulation of the EPC)
• Association of Patent Law Firms (APLF)
• Astron Clinica and other’s Applications (Astron Clinica, Astron Clinica v Comptroller-General), UK Court decision allowing computer program claims ([2008] EWHC 85) [8] [9] [10]
• Austrian Patent Office or Österreichisches Patentamt (ÖPA)
• The Banks Committee Report on Reform of the Patent System, The British Patent System: Report of the Committee to Examine the Patent System and Patent Law, Report of the Committee to Examine the Patent System and Patent Law, 1970 Cmnd 4407, Bank Report (UK, 1970, probably as important then as the Gowers Report now)
• Blatt für Patent-, Muster- und Zeichenwesen (German periodical, abbrev.: Blatt für PMZ, BlPMZ or BlfPMZ) [11]
• Bringing Examination and Search Together (BEST, European Patent Office program)
• Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys (Bundesverband Deutscher Patentanwälte) [12]
• Chamber of German Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer) [13]
• Chisum on Patents (Better: Donald Chisum, with Chisum on Patents and Donald S. Chisum redirecting to it: [14])
• Claim chart
• Claim differentiation, Claim Differentiation [15]
• Common general knowledge (of the skilled person in the art), often a significant aspect when assessing inventive step in European patent law [16]
• Danish Patents and Trade Marks Office
• Delphion (patent database)
• DEPATIS (patent search database)
• Dutch Industries Ltd. v. Commissioner of Patents (2001) (Canada)
• Election of species (United States patent law)
• Eolas Techs., Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.
• EPO International Academy [17]
• European Patent Decisions [18]
• European Patent Forum [19] [20]
• Final action (United States patent law)
• First Office Action on the Merits (FOAM) (United States patent law)
• First and second medical indications
• Foreign filing license
• French patent law
• German Act on Employees’ Inventions, Arbeitnehmererfindergesetz (ArbEG)
• German patent law
• Hiroshi Ogawa (Former head of Japanese Patent Office)
• In re Beauregard (U.S. software patent case law) (note Claim (patent)#Beauregard_claim)
• In re Lowry (U.S. software patent case law)
• Inventor's certificate
• Kunin, Stephen, former Deputy Patent Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, USPTO
• Large entity (United States and Canadian patent laws)
• Lincoln/Interlas, Dutch Supreme Court landmark decision on cross-border injunctions, 24 October 1993 (?)
• Machine-or-transformation test (United States patent law)
• Makoto Nakajima (Head of Japanese Patent Office)
• Netherlands Patent Act 1995, Dutch Patent Act 1995 or Patent Act 1995 (Rijksoctrooiwet 1995, Rijksoctrooiwet 1995 van 15 december 1994) [21]
• Non-binding opinion (UK patent law)
• Oberster Patent- und Markensenat (Austria)
• Offenlegungsschrift, Offenlegungschrift (German patent law)
• Offenlegungstag (German patent law)
• Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) (U.S. patent law)
• Patent defense
• Patent docket
• Patent hold (in the context of a thesis temporarily restricted from publication until a patent application is filed [22])
• Patent information
• Patent mapping
• Patentankenævnet (Danish Patent Appeals Board)
• Patents Act 1949, Patents Act 1977 (United Kingdom patent law)
• PatentScope or PatentScope Search Service (Online file inspection of PCT files)
• Patentanwaltskammer (Germany)
• Patentschrift (German patent law)
• PATLIB
• PaTrAS (DPMA filing software)
• PCT-ROAD (Patent Applications Management Software [23])
• PCT-SAFE (WIPO's electronic filing software)
• Pipeline patent (Brazilian patent law [24])
• Presumption of patentably indistinct claims (United States patent law)
• Principle of good faith (Case law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office)
• Prior claim approach
• Prior use (patent law, re: novelty)
• Public prior use (patent law, re: novelty)
• Programme for accelerated prosecution of European patent applications (PACE)
• Quality of patents [25]
• Request for reconsideration (after final action), in United States patent law
• Reissue application
• Reports of Patent Cases (RPC) (a UK series that goes back to 1883 and which is mandated by statute) [26][27]
• Rolla, Joe, current Deputy Patent Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, USPTO
• Rothschild Patent Museum
• Schriftzeichengesetz (German law - typeface patents?)
• Selection invention (EPC practice)
• Selection patents [28] (apparently old UK patent law concept)
• Shinjiro Ono (Deputy commissioner of the Japanese Patent Office)
• Small entity (United States and Canadian patent laws)
• STN Patent Databases by STN International
• Suggested restriction requirement (SRR) (United States patent law)
• Suzuki, Takashi, Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office (JPO) (2008)
• Tafas v. Dudas, Tafas v. Dudas et al (contesting new USPTO rules on continuation and claims) [29] [30] [31]
• Technical character as it is understood by EPO, HCJ and BGH
• UK Manual of Patent Practice
• Utility certificate
• Utynam, John of (first recorded patentee)
• Whole content approach, Whole-content approach

Trademark

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/USPTO

• Fair use (trademark law) (comparison of the U.S. law with laws in other countries)
• OHIM Board of Appeal
• Regulation 40/94 on the Community trade mark (redirect to Community trade mark?) [32]
• Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, Singapore Treaty on Trademarks [33][34]
• Trademark Law Treaty
• Trade mark use
• UK Trade Mark Registry

Trade secret

Publicity right

• Video Appearance Release

Other

• Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) (Australia)
• California Resale Royalties Act
• Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research and Development (MIHR) [35]
• Compagnie Nationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (CNCPI, or French Institute of Patent & Trademark Attorneys) [36]
• Convention on international exhibitions (signed at Paris on 22 November 1928 and last revised on 30 November 1972)
• European Copyright and Design Reports [37]
• European Federation of Industrial Property Agents in Industry (FEMIPI)
• European Intellectual Property Teachers Network (EIPTN) [38]
• Exhaustion of priority rights
• Ex parte Jepson
• Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement on international design registration, Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs [39]
• Gesellschaft für Antriebstechnik mbH & Co. KG v Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG (ECJ, 2006 [40])
• Hilmer doctrine
• Institut de Recherche en Propriété Intellectuelle Henri-Desbois (IRPI) [41]
• Intellectual-asset management
• Intellectual property litigation
• IPEIS Electronic Forum [42]
• IP World [43] (magazine)
• Italian IP Code
• Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA)
• Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, Lisbon System for the International Registration of Appellations of Origin [44] [45]
• Keplinger, Michael, WIPO Deputy Director General
• Münchener Kommentar zum Lauterkeitsrecht (UWG) or MünchKommUWG (unfair/fair competition related journal?)
• non-exclusive world rights
• Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC)
• Questel Orbit
• Regulation 2605/98 amending Regulation 1768/95 implementing rules on the agricultural exemption provided for in Article 14(3) of Regulation 2100/94 on Community Plant Variety Rights [46]
• Roche Nederland and others v Frederick Primus and Milton Goldenburg (ECJ, 2006 [47])
• Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) [48]
• The Journal of World Intellectual Property

Statutes

• Arizona Revised Statutes
• Assisted Human Reproduction Act (Canada)
• Civil Enforcement Act -
• Código Civil de Chile/Chilean Civil Code es:Código Civil de Chile
• Electronic Communications and Privacy Act
• General Enclosure Act (UK)
• Gulf Opportunity Zone Act (2005) See http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051221-4.html
• Improvement Act
• Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act
• Iranian nationality law
• Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill
• Polish Nationality and Citizenship Laws
• Prison Litigation Reform Act
• Stored Communications Act
• Federal Contested Election Act of 1969
• Unruh Act
• Victorian England Law
• Uniform Penal Code

Other: Miscellaneous laws and agencies, etc.

• Alcohol Laws of Florida
• Bosnian and Herzegovinan nationality law
• Center on Wrongful Convictions [49]
• District of Columbia Bureau of Traffic Adjudication
• International Financial Law Review (IFLR)
• Legal Journals Index (database file)
• List of Superfund sites in New Jersey
• Montenegrin nationality law
• nonincorporation doctrine
• National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999
• Solar appliance
• Stockholm International Arbitration Court
• Summons on Indictment
• Tor Erling Staff
• Ugly Laws (Laws similar to Jim Crow against severely disfigured individuals)
• Unsworn statement (An option given to defendents in the old days in courts of England instead of statment under oath)
• Vestre Landsret, the second-highest court in the Danish legal system
• warranty tolling
• William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition (the University of Virginia School of Law internal moot court competition)

Legal terms

B

Bad act (& Rdr bad actor), see 5 ex.secn 5.2,.. - Bench memorandum -

C

Condictio Causa Data Causa Non Secuta - Condictio Indebiti - Conditional dismissal - Confidential relation - Consensu - Constructive fraud - Contingent beneficiary - Contingent interest - Continuing objection - Continuing trespass - Contracted-out - Corporate opportunity - Cost bill - Cost of completion - Covenants, conditions and restrictions - Credible witness - Customs court- Clinical legal education-

D

D'Oench Duhme Doctrine - Deforce - Delayed exchange - Depreciation reserve - Designated civil judge - Detailed assessment - Diminution in value - Docket fee - Dominium - Dubitante -

E

Errors and omissions - ex concessis - Exception in deed - Excusable neglect - Exempt employees - Extraordinary fees -

F

Finding - First tier - Four corners of an instrument - Free and clear - Fully paid

G

Grievance procedure - Good behaviour bond -

H

Heat of passion - Hometowned -

I

Immediately - Impanel - Impaneling - in extenso - in futoro - in haec verba - in omnibus - In perpetuity - Incompatibility - Indefeasible estate - Information and belief - Intergovernmental immunity - Interium - intra legem - Involuntary (law) -

J

Joinder of issue - Joint and survivor annuity - Joint enterprise - Joint powers agreement - Judgment creditor - Judgment debt - Judicial proceedings - Judicial sale - Jump bail - Jury charge - Jury fees - Jury stress - Just and equitable winding-up -

jus fruendi/ius fruendi - jus edicendi/ius edicendi - jus disponendi/ius disponendi - jus deliberandi/ius deliberandi - jus aedilium/ius aedilium - jus albanagii/ius albanagii - jus ad rem/ius ad rem - jus accrescendi/ius accrescendi - jus abutendi/ius abutendi - jus in personam/ius in personam - jus in re/ius in re/jus in rem/ius in rem - jus personarum/ius personarum - jus postliminii/ius postliminii - jus proprietatis/ius proprietatis - jus utendi/ius utendi

L

Law and motion calendar - Law book - Lesser crime - Lewd and lascivious - lex communis - lex posterior derogat priori - lex specialis derogat generali - Licensing Agreement - Lineal descendant - Listing questionnaire - Lodestar (legal term) (see [50] for a start) - Long cause - Lost Wages -

M

Maintenance pending suit - Make one whole - Mandatory joinder - Master and servant - Material inducement Material representation - Matter of record - Mental anguish - Minority shareholder - Misjoinder - Mitigating factors - Mitigation of damages - Motion to suppress evidence - Multi track - Multifarious - Mutual combatants -

N

Necessary inference - Necessary party - Net estate - New matter - No-par stock - Nominal party - Non-conforming use - Non-contiguous - Non-discretionary trust - Notice of claim - Notice of deposition - Notice of issue - Nulla bona - Noninterpretivism -

O

Off calendar - On or about - On or before - Overrule -

P

Paid into court - Parental neglect - Partial disability - Partly-paid - Patent defect - Payable on demand - Payment in due course - Payment in full - Personal application - Personal guardian - Personal services - Perstituant - Petty offenses - Possessory - Possessory interest - Possibility of a reverter -