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IPR ==> Intellectual Proprietary Restrictions

IPR ==> Intellectual Proprietary Restrictions

Posted Oct 23, 2005 15:23 UTC (Sun) by fergal (subscriber, #602)
In reply to: IPR ==> Intellectual Proprietary Restrictions by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Europatents to return in 2006?

The problem with trying to hijack the opposition's acronyms is that most people already have a meaning in their head for them. When an anti-swpat person is quoted and he says "IPR" the quote is unlikely to also contain the alternate definition, however if he had said "IMP" then it would have to be explained alongside the quote as "Intellectual Monopoly Privilege".


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