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Glossary of Terms
- Assignment
- The legal transfer of intellectual property rights to another party
- Bioprospecting
- Bioprospecting can mean different things to different people. A commonly used definition is: bioprospecting is the collection and examination of biological resources, such as plants and animals, for features that may be of value for commercial development.
- Biodiscovery
- The analysis of a biological material's properties, or its molecular, biochemical or genetic content, for the purpose of developing a commercial product
- Biological resources
- Biological resources includes organisms, parts of organisms, genetic resources, populations and any other biotic component of an ecosystem with actual or potential use or value for humanity
- Commercialisation
- the process of turning an idea into a commercial product or service
- Genetic resources
- Any material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin has the ability to pass down genetic traits from a parent to offspring and has actual or potential value for humanity
- *Harakeke
- flax leaf
- Infringement
- Unauthorised use of another person or organisation's intellectual property rights
- *Kai
- food
- *Kaitiaki
- caretaker or guardian
- *Kuia
- female elder
- *Kaumatua
- elder
- *Kaupapa
- philosophy, theme
- Licence
- An agreement between the intellectual property right holder and a third party for authorised use of the intellectual property
- Public domain
- When intellectual property rights over a work or invention expire, the work or invention automatically enters the "public domain". This means that it can be used without infringing the author or creator's intellectual property rights.
- *Rongoa
- medicine, healing drug, antidote, tonic
- *Rohe
- boundary or territory
- *Ropu
- group
- *Tikanga
- meaning custom, obligations and conditions
- *Tipuna
- ancestor, grandparent
- Taxonomy
- the practice of classifying things, for example, living organisms
- *Waiata
- song or chant
- *Whakapapa
- genealogy
- *Whanau
- extended family
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