Intellectual Property Law

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Intellectual Property Law.

• Copyright — A territorial legal regime granting bounded exclusive control over qualifying original expression while preserving subject-matter limits, exceptions, and eventual public access.
• Defensive termination — An intellectual-property license clause allowing a licensor to terminate granted rights if the licensee asserts specified infringement claims against the licensor.
• Transfer (patent) — A legal change in ownership of a patent or patent application by assignment, succession, merger or operation of law.