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The giving up of a right.
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In order to maximize the number of communities that can take advantage of COPS grants, only a very small portion of waiver requests are granted at the time of application. Waiver requests can only be considered when a jurisdiction makes the request at the time of application. Applicants that are able to provide satisfactory documentation of severe fiscal distress may be granted waivers. Except in extreme situations, requests for waivers after an award to an agency has been made will not be considered.
- Browse Related Terms: COPS Office, Full-Time Equivalent Officers (FTE), OJP EIN Number/Vendor Number, Originating Agency Identifier (ORI) Number, Required Level of Redeployment, Supplanting, Waiver
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A means authorized by statute by which a witness, before testifying or producing evidence, may relinquish the right to refuse to testify against himself or herself, thereby making it possible for his or her testimony to be used against him or her in future proceedings.
- Browse Related Terms: Cross-examination, cross-examine, Deposition, Direct examination, Hearsay, Hostile witness, Impeachment, Leading question, Objection, Scilicet (Abbr. scil.), Sequestration of witnesses, statement, subpoena duces tecum, testimony, Waiver of immunity
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An arrest warrant is a written order directing the arrest of a party. A search warrant orders that a specific location be searched for items, which if found, can be used in court as evidence. Search warrants require probable cause in order to be issued.
Most commonly, a court order authorizing law enforcement officers to make an arrest or conduct a search. An application seeking a warrant must be accompanied by an affidavit which establishes probable cause by detailing the facts upon which the request is based.
A written order authorizing official action by law enforcement officials, usually directing them to arrest the individual named in the warrant. A search warrant orders that a specific location be searched for items, which if found, can be used in court as evidence.
Sanction or authorization, as an arrest warrant authorizes a police officer to take an individual into custody.
- Browse Related Terms: Administrative Agency, Arrest, Bail, Bench, Capias, case law, Continuance, Due process, Expedited Appeals, Homicide, Injunction, Oath, pro se, Prosecutor, Statutory law, Stay, Substantiated facts, warrant
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A promise that a proposition of fact is true.
- Browse Related Terms: A fortiori, affidavit, Affirmation, certification, Non assumpsit, Notary Public, Oath, On a person's own recognizance, Personal recognizance, Promisee, Promisor, Warranty
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A deed which guarantees that the title conveyed is good and its transfer rightful.
- Browse Related Terms: Acknowledgment, Charta, Fait, Habendum, In facto, Quitclaim Deed, Tenere, Warranty deed
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The right to use water.
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File extension name for Windows sound files. .WAV files can reach 5 Megabytes for one minute of audio.
- Browse Related Terms: Directory, Filename, Folder, Full Path, Page File/Paging File, Relative Path, Root Directory, Swap File, WAV
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WIPO Copyright Treaty
- Browse Related Terms: Administrative Instructions, ATO, Chapter I, Chapter II, designation, election (PCT), examination copy, home copy, national stage application, PCT, PCT Regulations, PLT, POIS, Power, precautionary designation, record copy, search copy, TLT, WCT, WPPT
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A collection of Uniform Resource Indicators (URIs, including URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)) in the control of one administrative entity. May include different types of URIs (i.e., file transfer protocol sites, telnet sites, as well as World Wide Web sites).
A collection of Uniform Resource Indicators (URIs, including URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)) in the control of one administrative entity. May include different types of URIs (i.e., file transfer protocol sites, telnet sites, as well as World Wide Web sites).
- Browse Related Terms: Address, Email address, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), Internet, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, IPX/SPX, Packet, SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), Spoofing, TCP/IP, Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), URI (Uniform Resource Indicator), Web site
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Assistants to the floor leaders who are also elected by their party conferences. The Majority and Minority Whips (and their assistants) are responsible for mobilizing votes within their parties on major issues. In the absence of a party floor leader, the whip often serves as acting floor leader.
- Browse Related Terms: cloakroom, committee on committees, conferees, conference, party, floor leaders, majority whip, minority whip, policy committees, secretaries, party, secretary of the Senate, sergeant at arms, whips
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A legal declaration that disposes of a person's property when that person dies.
- Browse Related Terms: assignment, Beneficiary, Chattel, Cui bono, Escheat, Estate, Forfeiture, Parens patriae, privilege, Revoke, Self-defense, trust, will
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Conduct that constitutes an illegal use of another's patented invention where the infringer has no reasonable basis for believing that its actions are legal (i.e., infringement when the infringer knew of the patent and had no reasonable basis for believing that it either did not infringe the patent or that the patent was invalid or unenforceable). A finding of willful infringement is a basis for increasing damages up to treble the actual amount and/or the award of attorneys' fees to the prevailing party. Good-faith reliance on the advice of counsel can be relevant to the issue of whether an infringement was willful.
- Browse Related Terms: apportionment of profit, attorneys' fees award, exceptional case, indefiniteness of claim, Indemnity from Suit, Inducement to Infringe, lost profits, prejudgment interest, profits, royalty (reasonable royalty), willful infringement
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time period after which a utility patent (that issues from an application filed on or after 12 December 1980) expires if a maintenance fee has not been paid. A petition must be filed along with the appropriate fees to reinstate an expired patent.
-- see MPEP 2590
- Browse Related Terms: certificate of mailing, maintenance fees, reexamination proceeding, RPO, RTO, SIR, surcharge due, window close, window open, workflow incoming amendment IFW
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time period when a maintenance fee can be paid with or without a surcharge.
-- see MPEP 2506
- Browse Related Terms: certificate of mailing, maintenance fees, reexamination proceeding, RPO, RTO, SIR, surcharge due, window close, window open, workflow incoming amendment IFW
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Microsoft e-mail program included in Windows Vista as a successor to Outlook Express.
- Browse Related Terms: Application, Data Streams, Merge, Objects, OLE, Outlook Express, Scroll Bar, Software Application, Status Bar, Windows Mail
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Microsoft Windows-based computer operating systems utilize a special file as a "scratch pad" to write data when additional random access memory is needed, called Windows Swap Files or Windows Page Files. Windows Swap and Page Files are potentially very large and most computer users are unaware of their existence and the potential exists for these huge files to contain remnants of word processing, email messages, Internet browsing activity, database entries, and almost any other work that may have occurred
- Browse Related Terms: BBS (Bulletin Board System), compression, database, Electronic Mail/Email, ESI Audio Systems, ESI Communication Systems, ESI Data Retention Archival Systems, ESI Email Systems, ESI IM Systems, Instant Messaging (IM), Raw Relational Database, Repository for Electronic Records, SHA-1, Thread, UMS, Windows Swap (Page) File
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Windows Internet Naming Service
- Browse Related Terms: arbitrary marks, certification mark, collective mark, CSR, DNS, fanciful marks, FAS, fee, FQA, goods and services, mere descriptiveness, service mark, SM, suggestive mark, trade dress, trademark, TTY, WINS
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Slang term for deliberately overwriting a piece of media and removing any trace of files or files fragments.
- Browse Related Terms: Archival Data, Backup Data, Backup Tape, Backup Tapes, Burn, CD-R (Compact Disc Recordable), Disaster Recovery Tape, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), Mount/Mounting, Off-Line Storage, Restore, Wipe
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World Intellectual Property Organization
an intergovernmental organization of the United Nations system. WIPO is responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the world and for the administration of various multilateral treaties dealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property.
-- see MORE INFO about International Intellectual Property protection
- Browse Related Terms: AIPLA, ASEAN, concept, CONFU, FTAA, IB, INTA, Intellectual Property, IPO, IPR, NIPLECC, OLIA (superceded), Trade Secret, TRIPs, USTR, WIPO, WTO
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World Intellectual Property Organization, an agency of the United Nations, that acts as a coordinating body for patent systems and procedures, as well as for trademark and copyright matters. MPEP 1801.
- Browse Related Terms: assignment, bailment, Cross License, due diligence terms, exclusive license, Field of Use, field of use license, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), ipr hygiene, license, licensee, licensor, Misuse, Patent Owner, Property, technology licensing, Technology Manager, WIPO, Worked or Working
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A declaration which dismisses all rights. A judgment barring the right to bring or maintain an action on the same claim or cause.
- Browse Related Terms: Alternative dispute resolution, Appearance, appellee, Arbitrator, Conciliation, Conformed copy, Duces Tecum, Escrow, judgment, Mediation, No-fault Proceedings, Request for admission, Request for production of documents, Right of way, Settlement, With prejudice, Without prejudice