refers to the philospohy that all law should be the result of all knowledge of human affairs and be based on the sciences of economics, politics, psychology and anthropology. 

A sum paid to copyright owners for the sale or use of their works, or other subject matter.

A country that is party to the international convention for the protection of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organizations done at Rome on October 26, 1961.

A trade-mark entered on the government’s Trade-marks Register, which formally recognizes the owner’s rights to the mark.

A specialist entitled to prepare and prosecute patent applications.

The granting of formal recognition of a trade-mark, copyright, industrial design, or integrated circuit topography by the Trade-marks, Copyright, and Industrial Design Office respectively.

A special-purpose computer (or software package) that handles the connection between 2 or more networks. Routers spend all their time looking at the destination addresses of the packets passing through them and deciding which route to send them on.

See Also: Network , Packet Switching

(Request for Comments) -- The name of the result and the process for creating a standard on the Internet. New standards are proposed and published on line, as a Request for Comments. The Internet Engineering Task Force is a consensus-building body that facilitates discussion, and eventually a new standard is established, but the reference number/name for the standard retains the acronym RFC, e.g. the official standard for e-mail is RFC 822.