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INVENTION [2 records]

Record 1 2000-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Design
CONT

... the genesis of the product ... [may be]: 1. Invention - never before conceived ... 2. Innovation - honing of an invention/ a large change to an existing product ... 3. A mature design with incremental innovation....

OBS

See also the record for "creative design".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dessin industriel
DEF

Action d'imaginer, d'inventer, de créer quelque chose de nouveau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Diseño industrial
DEF

Descubrimiento de un nuevo producto o de un nuevo proceso de producción para un producto ya existente.

OBS

Los inventos son protegibles, en favor de los inventores, a través de su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad Industrial, por medio de la patente correspondiente.

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Record 2 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education
OBS

means any new and useful art process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pédagogie
OBS

signifie toute réalisation, tout procédé, toute machine, fabrication ou composition de matières, ainsi qu'un perfectionnement quelconque de l'un des susdits, présentant le caractère de nouveauté et d'utilité

Spanish

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