parking. 1. The sale of securities subject to an agreement that the seller will buy them back at a later time for a similar price. • Parking is illegal if done to circumvent securities regulations or tax laws. It is often a method of evading the net-capital requirements of the National Association of Securities Dealers […]
substantial right 实体权利 可能影响诉讼结果并且能获得法律保护的重要权利，区别于程序性权利〔technical or procedural right〕。
invasion of privacy. An unjustified exploitation of one’s personality or intrusion into one’s personal activities, actionable under tort law and sometimes under constitutional law. See RIGHT OF PRIVACY. [Cases: Torts 8. 5. C.J.S. Right of Privacy and Publicity § 2.] invasion of privacy by appropriation. The use of another’s name or likeness for one’s own
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indecency, n. The state or condition of being outrageously offensive, esp. in a vulgar or sexual way. • Unlike obscene material, indecent speech is protected under the First Amendment. Cf. OBSCENITY. [Cases: Obscenity 1. C.J.S. Obscenity §§ 1–8.] — indecent, adj. “Obscenity is that which is offensive to chastity. Indecency is often used with the
Constitutional law. A statutory classification based on race, national origin, or alienage, and thereby subject to strict scrutiny under equal-protection analysis. • Examples of laws creating suspect classifications are those permitting only U.S. citizens to receive welfare benefits and setting quotas for the government’s hiring of minority contractors. See STRICT SCRUTINY. Cf. FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT. [Cases:
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blank-forms rule. Copyright. The principle that forms are not protectable by copyright if they are designed for recording information but do not themselves convey any information. • The rule, first promulgated by the U.S. Supreme Court in Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99 (1879), is now a U.S. Copyright Office regulation, 37CFR § 202.1(c). See
mortgage clause. An insurance-policy provision that protects the rights of a mortgagee when the insured property is subject to a mortgage. • Such a clause usu. provides that any insurance proceeds must be allocated between the named insured and the mortgagee “as their interests may appear.” — Also termed mortgagee clause. See LOSS-PAYABLE CLAUSE; ATIMA.
Patents. An inventor’s failure to take steps to protect an invention, such as by failing to claim the invention when disclosed in a patent application or by permitting an application to be abandoned, esp. by failing to file an answer to an office action within the time allowed. [Cases: Patents 107. C.J.S. Patents §§ 157–158.]
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inlagation (in-l[schwa]-gay-sh[schwa]n), n. [Law Latin] Hist. The act of restoring an outlaw to the protection of the law; inlawry. Cf. UTLAGATION.
Buenos Aires Convention. Copyright. A 1910 treaty regulating copyright reciprocity among Latin American nations and the United States. • Under this agreement, the phrase “all rights reserved” guaranteed copyright protection in member nations. Since all the Convention’s signatories are now signatories to more recent and broader international-copyright treaties, this Convention now has little if any
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