Law terms starting with I

190 terms

  1. initial hearing Court proceeding in which the defendant learns of his rights and the charges against him and the judge decides bail.
  2. Injunction An order or remedy issued by the court at the request of the complaining party, which forbids another party to do some act which he/she is threatening or…
  3. inoperativeness The failure of the invention to work due to either mechanical or methodical imperfections or due to incomplete or erroneous description of the invention…
  4. Input device Any peripheral that allows a user to communicate with a computer by entering information or issuing commands (e.g., keyboard).
  5. Insanity The inability to know what one is doing and to decide if the action is right or wrong.
  6. insider (of corporate debtor) A director, officer, or person in control of the debtor; a partnership in which the debtor is a general partner; a general partner of the debtor; or a…
  7. insider (of individual debtor) Any relative of the debtor or of a general partner of the debtor; partnership in which the debtor is a general partner; general partner of the debtor; or…
  8. Insolvent When the total debt of an entity is greater than all of its property.
  9. Inspection a review or audit of areas, practices, procedures for compliance with existing policy.
  10. Instant Messaging ("IM") Instant Messaging is a form of electronic communication which involves immediate correspondence between two or more users who are all online…
  11. Instrucción Instrucción del juez al jurado.
  12. Instrucción de cargos, procesamiento Un proceso formal en el cual un demandado o acusado comparece ante el tribunal y es informado de las alegaciones en su contra.
  13. Instructions Judge's explanation to the jury before it begins deliberations of the questions it must answer and the applicable law governing the case.
  14. INTA International Trademark Association
  15. Intake The step in juvenile process during which a decision is made either to detain the juvenile at a detention center or to release to the parents.
  16. Integrated Ballistics Information System (IBIS) a database used for acquiring, storing, and analyzing images of bullets and cartridge casings.
  17. Intellectual Property Creations of the mind - creative works or ideas embodied in a form that can be shared or can enable others to recreate, emulate, or manufacture them.
  18. intent to use ITU - refers to the intent-to-use filing basis provided for in Trademark Act Section 1(b), 15 U.S.C. 1051(b).
  19. Intentional tort Wrong perpetrated by one who intends to break the law.
  20. Inter alia Among other things.
  21. Inter alios Among other persons.
  22. inter partes reexamination -- see reexamination proceeding Inter partes reexamination practice primarily differs from ex parte practice in that the third party requestor may file…
  23. Inter vivos Between living persons.
  24. Inter-Partition Space Unused sectors on a track located between the start of the partition and the partition boot record.
  25. interference a proceeding, conducted before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), to determine priority of invention between a pending application and…
  26. Interlaced TV & CRT pictures must constantly be refreshed. Interlace is to refresh every other line once/refresh cycle.
  27. Interleave To arrange data in a noncontiguous way to increase performance. When used to describe disc drives, it refers to the way sectors on a disc are organized.
  28. Interlocutory Temporary; provisional; interim; not final.
  29. Interlocutory Appeal An appeal that is filed before the trial court has entered its final order in the case.
  30. Internal Inquiries A close examination of a matter in a search for information or truth that is internal to a company.
  31. Internal Proficiency Test an exam process/instrument originating from within the laboratory system and used as a quality assessment sample.
  32. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) The federal agency that collects income taxes in the United States.
  33. international application an application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
  34. International Telecommunication Union (ITU) An international organization under the UN headquartered in Geneva concerned with telecommunications that develops international data communications…
  35. Internet A worldwide network of networks that all use the TCP/IP communications protocol and share a common address space.
  36. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority The organization that manages and creates IP (internet protocol) addresses.
  37. Internet Publishing Specialized imaging software that allows documents to be published on the Internet
  38. Interrogatories A set or series of written questions propounded to a party, witness or other person having information or interest in a case; a discovery device.
  39. Interrogatorio preliminar de un testigo o miembro del jurado Examen de miembros del jurado o de un testigo a fin de determinar su capacidad.
  40. Interrogatorios Preguntas escritas presentadas por una de las partes que deben ser contestadas por escrito por la otra parte como parte del conjunto de actos procesales…
  41. Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) A federal agency which regulates all transportation in interstate commerce.
  42. Intervening Rights A defense to an allegation of infringement. Intervening rights exist when a patent is later reissued with broader claims because of inadvertent errors in…
  43. Intervention (IN-ter-VEN-shun) In medicine, a treatment or action taken to prevent or treat disease, or improve health in other ways.
  44. interview A meeting with the police or prosecutor.
  45. Intestado Cuando una persona muere sin dejar testamento.
  46. intranet A private network that uses Internet-related technologies to provide services within an organization.
  47. Invalid Ineffective or void under the law. A patent can be invalided if it was issued in error.
  48. invalidation showing that an invention is not deserving of patent protection by providing evidence that it is not new, not useful, or is obvious.
  49. invention any art or process (way of doing or making things), machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or…
  50. Invention Disclosure From a legal standpoint, a description of an invention that would enable a person skilled in the art to which the invention pertains to build and use the…
  51. Invention, Abandoned See Abandonment of Invention.
  52. Inventive Entity The inventor(s). MPEP 2173.01, MPEP 804.03.
  53. inventor one who contributes to the conception of an invention. The patent law of the United States of America requires that the applicant in a patent application…
  54. Inventor, Joint A person who collaborates with another inventor in the conception of an invention. MPEP 605.07, MPEP 2137.01.
  55. Inventorship The condition of being an inventor under the law. MPEP 2137.01.
  56. Inventory a detailed accounting of all items within a specified location. Examples include but are not limited to: evidence in the evidence vault, evidence in the…
  57. Investigation an inquiry usually initiated by a government agency.
  58. Involuntary bankruptcy A proceeding initiated by creditors requesting the bankruptcy court to place a debtor in liquidation.
  59. involuntary filing A bankruptcy case that a creditor or group of creditors initiates.
  60. IP Within the peritoneal cavity (the area that contains the abdominal organs). Also called intraperitoneal.
  61. IP Address A string of four numbers separated by periods used to represent a computer on the Internet.
  62. IPA Internet Purchasing Application
  63. IPEA International Preliminary Examining Authority - either a national Office or an intergovernmental organization whose tasks include the establishment of…
  64. IPER International Preliminary Examination Report (Form PCT/IPEA/409), produced by an International Preliminary Examining Authority, is a preliminary and…
  65. IPO Intellectual Property Owners Association
  66. IPR Intellectual Property Rights
  67. ipr hygiene Intellectual Property Rights Hygiene is the process of ensuring that all sponsors of research that results in intellectual property protection and…
  68. Ipse He; himself.
  69. Ipso facto By the act itself; or by the fact itself.
  70. Ipso jure By the law itself.
  71. IPX/SPX Communications protocol used by Novell networks.
  72. IRB A group of scientists, doctors, clergy, and consumers that reviews and approves the action plan for every clinical trial.
  73. Irrelevant facts Evidence that does not tend to prove or disprove any issue of fact involved in a case.
  74. IS/IT (Information Systems or Information Technology) Usually refers to the people who make computers and computer systems run.
  75. IS/IT (Information Systems or Information Technology) Terms used to describe the people who make computers and/or make computer systems run.
  76. ISA Industry Standard Architecture.
  77. ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) An all digital network which can carry data, video and voice.
  78. ISIS and TWAIN Scanner Drivers Specialized applications used for communication between scanners and computers.
  79. ISO International Standards Organization.
  80. ISO 9660 CD Format The International Standards Organization format for creating CD-ROMs that can be read worldwide.
  81. ISP (Internet Service Provider). A business that delivers access to the Internet.
  82. ISP (Internet Service Provider) A business that delivers access to the Internet.
  83. ISR International Search Report (Form PCT/ISA/210), produced by an International Searching Authority, is a report listing citations of published documents…
  84. Issue When a corporation offers a stock or bond for sale, or a government offers a bond, the security is known as an issue, and the company or government is the…
  85. issue date the date that a patent application becomes a US patent. The issue date is the date that patent rights can be exercised. U.S.
  86. Issue Fee The fee paid by an applicant a patent office prior to the granting of a patent. MPEP 1306.
  87. IT information technology
  88. IT (Information Technology) Infrastructure The overall makeup of business-wide technology operations, including mainframe operations, standalone systems, email, networks (WAN and LAN), internet…
  89. item veto Authority to veto part rather than all of an appropriations act. The President does not now have item-veto authority.
  90. ITU Intent to Use -- see MORE INFO