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sui generis right

noun

C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A bespoke statutory right, such as the database right, created outside the classical IP categories to protect investment.

The compilation lacks originality, but the sui generis database right still guards our extraction effort.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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