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UTILITY PATENT

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A type of patent where the invention results in a useful function, as opposed to a design patent which is merely aesthetic. A utility patent's duration is 20 years from date of filing the application. … [Read more...]

UTLAGATUS

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In old English law. An outlawed person; an outlaw. Utlagatns est quasi extra legem positns. Caput gerit lnpinum. 7 Coke, 14. An outlaw is, as it were, put out of the protection of the law. He bears the head of a wolf. Utlagatus pro contumacla et fuga, non propter hoc convietus est do facto principall. Fleta. One Who is outlawed for contumacy and flight is not on that account … [Read more...]

UTLAGE

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L. Fr. An outlaw. Britt c. 12. … [Read more...]

USURER

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One who engages in usury. … [Read more...]

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