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UTILITY MODEL [35 records]

Record 1 2025-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

An energy performance contract(EPC) is a performance-based financing mechanism that enables a client organization to leverage the technical and financial capacity of an energy service company(ESCO) to design, build, and secure financing to improve energy management practices and/or retrofits within a facility or group of facilities. This contracting model is a low-risk, turnkey service that delivers guaranteed energy and cost savings. The ESCO assumes some, or all, of the initial capital costs, and the client repays the ESCO over a specified period from the resulting utility cost savings. After the contract closes, the client receives ongoing savings from energy, GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions, and utility costs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
  • Économie environnementale
CONT

Un contrat de performance énergétique (CPE) est un mécanisme de financement fondé sur la performance qui permet à une organisation cliente de tirer parti des capacités techniques et financières d'une ESE [entreprise de services énergétiques] pour créer et obtenir un financement dans le but d'améliorer les pratiques de gestion de l'énergie ou de réaliser un projet de modernisation dans un bâtiment ou un groupe de bâtiments. Ce modèle de contrat est un service clé en main à faible risque qui permet de garantir des économies d'énergie et de coûts. L'ESE prend en charge une partie ou la totalité des coûts d'investissement initiaux, et le client rembourse l'ESE sur une période déterminée grâce aux économies réalisées sur les coûts des services publics. Après la conclusion du contrat, le client continue de profiter d'économies d'énergie et de coûts des services publics ainsi que d'une réduction des émissions de GES [gaz à effet de serre].

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
OBS

Issued by: Public Works and Government Services Canada. Date: 1995. Number of Pages: 157. ISBN: 0-662-62158-1. Catalogue Number: Co36-1/1995. Source: Weekly Checklist: 95-49

Key term(s)
  • Towards a Government-Wide IM/IT Infrastructure Utility

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
OBS

Publié par : Travaux publics et Services gouvernementaux Canada. Date : 1995. Nombre de pages : 157. ISBN : 0-662-62158-1. Numéro de catalogue : Co36-1/1995. Source : Liste hebdomadaire : 95-49.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
  • Patents (Law)
  • Copyright
CONT

Coauthors are persons whose joint creative effort has resulted in a work being produced.

CONT

If an invention, utility model, or industrial design is the result of joint creative work of two or more parties, they file patent application together on [the] basis of mutual agreement even in the case, when the creative share of them in the invention is different.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
  • Droits d'auteur
CONT

Lorsqu'une œuvre est le fruit du travail créateur commun de plusieurs personnes, ces personnes ont la qualité de coauteur.

OBS

Le droit d'auteur sur une œuvre de collaboration appartient à tous les coauteurs indépendamment du fait que l'œuvre constitue un tout unique indissociable ou soit constituée de parties dont chacune possède une signification propre.

Key term(s)
  • œuvre de collaboration

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
CONT

In most cases the utility model patents are easier to obtain but also have less enforcement potential. The US does not allow for utility model patents. Because patent rights are territorial on a country-by-country basis, your Italian or German utility model patent will not provide any exclusive rights in the US.

OBS

A utility model is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which allows the right holder to prevent others from commercially using the protected invention, without his authorization, for a limited period of time.

Key term(s)
  • patent for utility model

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
CONT

Les brevets de modèles d'utilité sont octroyés pour des solutions techniques liées à la forme ou à la structure d'un objet.

OBS

Un modèle ou certificat d'utilité est un droit exclusif octroyé pour une invention et qui permet au titulaire du droit d'empêcher l'utilisation commerciale de l'invention protégée par des tiers, sans son autorisation, pendant une période limitée.

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
DEF

A system of patent registration giving patent-like rights in some countries, usually for a shorter term than a patent but with little or no search required.

CONT

A utility model is a statutory monopoly granted for a limited time in exchange for an inventor providing sufficient teaching of his or her invention to permit a person of ordinary skill in the relevant art to perform the invention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
CONT

Un modèle ou certificat d'utilité est un droit exclusif octroyé pour une invention et qui permet au titulaire du droit d'empêcher l'utilisation commerciale de l'invention protégée par des tiers, sans son autorisation, pendant une période limitée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Patentes de invención (Derecho)
  • Derecho de propiedad industrial e intelectual
OBS

De la OMPI, organizaciòn mundial de la propiedad intellectual.

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Record 6 2014-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 7 2014-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
  • Patents (Law)
CONT

The utility certificate can nevertheless be interesting to protect inventions with short lifespan whose protection does not have to be wide abroad. To be used without surprise, it requires however a good knowledge of the state of the art.

CONT

The applicant may indicate that the international application is for the grant, as far as any designated or elected State is concerned, of an inventor's certificate, a utility certificate, a utility model, a patent or certificate of addition, an inventor's certificate of addition, or a utility certificate of addition, depending on the respective national law instead of a patent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
DEF

Droit protégeant le titulaire d'une invention et lui assurant une exclusivité d'exploitation pendant six mois.

CONT

Le déposant peut indiquer que sa demande internationale tend à la délivrance, dans tout État désigné ou élu, d'un certificat d'auteur d'invention, d'un certificat d'utilité, d'un modèle d'utilité, d'un brevet ou certificat d'addition, d'un certificat d'auteur d'invention additionnel, ou d'un certificat d'utilité additionnel en lieu et place d'un brevet, selon la législation nationale respective.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad industrial e intelectual
  • Patentes de invención (Derecho)
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Record 8 2013-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Braking Systems (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
  • Braking Devices (Mechanical Components)
CONT

The utility model discloses an automobile braking hub, which comprises a cast steel ring body and a cast steel outer cover, wherein the cast steel ring body is connected with the cast steel outer cover for forming a whole body, and a circle of abrasion resistance cast iron braking surface is fixedly arranged along the inner wall of the cast steel outer cover.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Freins (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
  • Freins (Composants mécaniques)

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drying Equipment (Air Cond. and Heating)
  • Scientific Research Equipment
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
OBS

Term(s) taken from a Canadian laboratory-equipment company’s catalogue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étuves et séchoirs (Cond. de l'air et chauffage)
  • Matériel et équipement (Recherche scientifique)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
OBS

Terme(s) tiré(s) du catalogue d'une compagnie canadienne d'équipement de laboratoire.

Spanish

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Record 10 2010-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
  • Federal Administration
CONT

Two increasingly popular models for service integration are the service utility model and the ISD Department model... The ISD Department model takes the form of a department or agency “that is dedicated to improved service delivery and has a division responsible for promoting ISD [integrated service delivery], in part through coordinated channel management. ” At present, Service Canada is a distinctive hybrid model of service delivery organization that contains a mixture of elements present in these models.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
  • Administration fédérale

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
DEF

A utility program that complements Description Plus and enables the user to conveniently remove any unique identifying information and add a departmental model identifier which will include the department's acronym.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
DEF

Programme utilitaire qui complète Description Plus et donne à l'utilisateur la possibilité d'enlever tous les renseignements de base uniques et d'y introduire un identificateur de modèle ministériel qui inclura l'acronyme du ministère.

Spanish

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Record 12 1999-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
DEF

Existing equilibrium concepts for games make use of the subjective expected utility model axiomatized by Savage(1954) to represent players’ preferences. Accordingly, each player's beliefs about the strategies played by opponents are represented by a probability measure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation

Spanish

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Record 13 1999-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

We model the interaction within an alliance as a noncooperative variable-sum game, in which each firm invests part of its resources to increase the utility of a new product offering.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 14 1998-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique

Spanish

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Record 15 1998-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

With this interpretation, Thurstone's [1927] law of comparative judgment becomes similar to Harsanyi's random utility model. Indeed, the picture of the smooth best response curve drawn above is very similar to behavior curves that have been derived empirically in psychological experiments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 16 1997-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle

Spanish

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Record 17 1991-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Econometrics
CONT

In fact, the DSM(demand side management) screening model profile in the study undertakes what is known as the California test which includes total resource cost test, utility cost test and the no losers’ test.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économétrie
OBS

Terme proposé par un professeur en économie à l'Université de Montréal.

Spanish

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Record 18 1991-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Econometrics
CONT

In fact, the DSM(demand side management) screening model profile in the study undertakes what is known as the California test which includes total resource cost test, utility cost test and the no losers’ test.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économétrie
OBS

Terme proposé par un professeur en économie à l'Université de Montréal.

Spanish

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Record 19 1991-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Econometrics
CONT

In fact, the DSM(demand side management) screening model profile in the study undertakes what is known as the California test which includes total resource cost test, utility cost test and the no losers’ test.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économétrie
OBS

Terme proposé par un professeur en économie à l'Université de Montréal.

Spanish

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Record 20 1990-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

Module having the ability to extract substantive information from its knowledge base to contribute more effectively to the construction of an appropriate hierarchical utility model.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 21 1988-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
CONT

The purpose of this review is to identify and evaluate the existing utility model for military application. Two of the models, Taylor-Russel and Tarret, provide non-dollar estimates of utility.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois

Spanish

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Record 22 1987-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
DEF

A model used to consider investment alternatives in which the assets on the low level have the greatest utility to an individual in providing financial security and resources for day-to-day living. Their utility declines as more are purchased and higher level investments become more attractive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 23 1986-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Electric Rotary Machines
CONT

For array power performance(i. e., partially correlated WECS sites spread over a region such as utility service area), one additional parameter, the average spatial cross correlation, is sufficient to model the necessary array statistics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Machines tournantes électriques

Spanish

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Record 24 1986-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Power Stations
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
  • Mathematics
CONT

As part of our study of the energy sector, we undertook a complementary research program in cooperation with the Canadian Energy Research Institute in Calgary in order to develop a "Canadian regional electricity model"(CANREM). CANREM is a policy simulation model of the electric utility industry at the provincial level that articulates the interactions between demand, supply costs, the financial and regulatory regime, and investment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centrales électriques
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
  • Mathématiques

Spanish

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Record 25 1986-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A computer program that uses knowledge and inference procedures to solve difficult problems. The knowledge necessary to perform at such a level, plus the inference procedures used, can be thought of as a model of the expertise of skilled practitioners. In contrast to expert systems, knowledge systems are often designed to solve small, difficult problems rather than large problems requiring true human expertise. In many cases, small knowledge systems derive their utility from their userfriendly nature rather than from their ability to capture knowledge that would be difficult to represent in a conventional program.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Système consistant en trois parties : (a) une règle de base composée d'un ensemble de règles de production; (b) une structure spéciale de données - tampon que nous appellerons le contexte; et (c) un interpréteur qui contrôle l'activité du système.

Spanish

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Record 26 1986-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Scientific Research Facilities
OBS

Utility missions were projected using two models : the Utility Simulation Model(USM) developed and operated by Teknekron Research, Incorporated(TRI), and the Coal and Electric Utilities Model(CEUM) developed and run by ICF Incorporated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Installations de recherche scientifique
OBS

Comme il s'agit d'une société de recherche américaine, il n'existe pas d'appellation ou de sigle français officiels.

Spanish

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Record 27 1986-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
CONT

Utility emissions were projected using two models : the Utility Simulator Model(USM), developed and operated by Teknetron Research, Incorporated(TRI), and the Cool and Electric Utilities Model(CEUM) developed and run by ICF Incorporated. Both models are capable of projecting future energy use, by fuel type, for the electric industry, given a baseline energy scenario. The models also calculate the cost of emission controls, emissions and relative cost effectiveness of control, on a dollar per tonne of collected pollutant basis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air

Spanish

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Record 28 1986-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Civil Engineering
OBS

(PROIE, May 74, p. 243).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie civil

Spanish

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Record 29 1985-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
Key term(s)
  • modèle de simulation de centrale

Spanish

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Record 30 1983-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
OBS

A communications utility lets you transmit and receive documents to or from another Model II or 12 SCRIPSIT system by phone(...) or directly using an RS-232C cable and a null modem adapter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
OBS

Programme utilitaire de communications pour transmission/réception des documents entre système SCRIPSIT de modèle II/12 par téléphone (...) ou directement avec câble RS-232C et adaptateur de modem vide.

Spanish

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Record 31 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)
DEF

A german form of patent, customarily translated as utility model, intermediate between an American patent, and an American design patent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 32 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 33 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel Management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du personnel

Spanish

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Record 34 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 35 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle

Spanish

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