Crossword clues for infringement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infringement \In*fringe"ment\, n.
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The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.
The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is.
--Clarendon. An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from infringe + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. A violation or breach, as of a law.
WordNet
n. an act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment" [syn: violation]
a crime less serious than a felony [syn: misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, offence, offense, violation]
Wikipedia
Infringement refers to the violation of a law or a right.
Infringement may refer to:
- Infringement procedure, a European Court of Justice procedure to determine whether a Member State has fulfilled its obligations under Union law
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Intellectual property infringement, violating an owner's exclusive rights to intangible assets such as musical, literary, or artistic works
- Copyright infringement, the use of works under copyright, including reproducing, distributing, displaying, or performing the copyrighted work without permission
- Patent infringement, using or selling a patented invention without permission from the patent holder, typically for commercial purposes
- Trademark infringement, a violation of the exclusive rights attaching to a trademark without the authorization of the trademark owner or licensees
- Secondary infringement, when a party contributes to or is responsible for infringing acts carried out by another party
- Summary offence or infraction, a crime that can be proceeded against without a jury trial and/or indictment in some jurisdictions
Usage examples of "infringement".
They had the power to fine citizens and noncitizens alike for infringements of any regulation appertaining to any of the above, and deposited the moneys in their coffers to help fund the games.
No matter how powerful they were, tight-beam transmissions aimed at one tiny point in the sky had no impact on the normal use of the airwaves, and attempts to ban such narrowcasts were therefore an unwarranted infringement of free speech.
The blunders of the latter, his infringement of all the canons of grammar, his absurdities and monstrosities of language, make his very presence a pain, and one is glad to escape from his company.
Among other things, Defects may take the form of incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other eBook medium, a computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment.
The defendants deny infringement but admit production and distribution of the alleged infringing motion picture entitled The Blood in the Red White and Blue.
Among other things, Defects may take the form of incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other etext medium, a computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment.
The present Administration, he is particularly glad to affirm, will be saved from all such pitfalls by that provision of the new law which directly forbids the exercise of executive functions by other than executive officers, and whose purpose is to put an end to the creeping infringements of the past.
They had the power to fine citizens and noncitizens alike for infringements of any regulations connected to any of the above, and deposited the monies in their coffers to help fund the games.
Finally Ratface came up with a clipboard reading aloud what he said were twenty-two infringements.
It involved, he said, hearing both sides if there was an objection to a winner and awarding the race justly to the more deserving, and, yes, summoning jockeys and trainers for minor infringements of the rules and fining them a fiver or a tenner a time.
The action arises out of alleged infringements upon the dramatic presentation Once at Antietam written by plaintiff, a historian and fledgling playwright, for the stage or for television adaptation.
Judge Crease had only the night before handed down his last decision in a First Amendment case dealing with the notorious outdoor steel sculpture known as Cyclone Seven, overshadowing his long and distinguished career on the Federal bench in clouds of public controversy reaching his court in various guises, most recently the highly publicized 'Spot decision' and another just adjudicated in a related matter involving trademark infringement by a manufacturer of novelty mittens, repeatedly subjecting him to a campaign of vilification as a coldblooded unAmeri-can atheist in a tumult culminating in his being burned in effigy.
Thus where defendant-appellees urge the defense of 'public domain' claiming that all material in that category may be used repeatedly without charge of infringement, that claim is limited by the court in Fred Fisher, Inc.
Charging misappropriation of the dog's name for commercial exploitation in captioning the mittens Genuine Simulated Spotskin, Wear 'Em With The Skinside Inside, the boy's lawyer, J Harret Ruth, cites the provision governing false description and false designation of origin in the Lanham Trade-Mark Act, claiming unspecified damages for trade-mark infringement and of the rights of publicity and privacy.
There were more cases than they could possibly handle – from hacking to cyberstalking to child pornography to copyright infringement of software – and the workload seemed to get heavier with every passing month.