An legal agreement that provides permission to make, use and sell a product. It is frequently the predecessor to a formal agreement. Primarily pertains to biomedical and chemical research. The party or parties who control rights to an authored work or an invention, whether patented or not. An idea that has been reduced to practice and protected by a constitutional privilege such that it cannot be made, used or sold in the United States for 20 years from the date of filing the patent application without permission from the owner of the patent.
Foreign patents protect the same rights in the countries in which they are filed.
The main and partner investigators on a given project. Public Domain Belonging to the community at large. Unprotected by patent and copyright. Subject to appropriation by anyone. An idea which is proven to work.