Contracting Terminology Archives - Page 14 of 27

Contracts: Registry (Data Registry)

An organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical or otherwise) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, […]

Patents: Reduced to Practice

A concept meaning the embodiment of the concept of an invention, which can be: Actual reduction to practice, requiring that the claimed invention works for its intended purpose. Constructive reduction […]

Raw Data

Sometimes called source data or primary data, is data collected from a source has not been processed or analyzed. Sometimes, it is a relative term that refers to any input […]

Publicly Available

Information or data that has been published or broadcast for public consumption, or is accessible or available, on-line or otherwise, to the public.

Publication

The action of making results or research available to the public, whether it be through distribution of a literary or academic work or public presentation.

Provider

In the context of Data Use Agreements (DUAs), the provider takes on a stewardship role that assumes control of the data and the right to enter into DUAs regarding its […]

Prototype

An original or first model of something from which other forms are copied or developed.

Contracts: Protection Period

The period of time information must be kept confidential. This period usually begins with actual disclosure of information and ends as specified in the agreement (typically 3-7 years).

Protection of IP

Intellectual property can be protected through various legal protection schemes, including patent protection, trademarks, or copyrights, or through confidentiality agreements.

Proprietary Materials

All products, devices, computer programs, techniques, know-how, algorithms, procedures, discoveries or inventions, whether patentable or copyrightable and whether reduced to practice, and all materials, texts, drawings, specifications, source code, data […]