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colorable deviation.See COLORABLE ALTERATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

colorable claim.See CLAIM(4). [Blacks Law 8th]

colorable alteration.Intellectual property. A modification that effects no real or substantial change, but is made only to distinguish an invention or work from an existing patent or copyright; a small change made in a product or process solely to avoid literal infringement of an earlier patent’s claim. — Also termed colorable deviation. [Cases: Patents  174;…

colorable,adj.1. (Of a claim or action) appearing to be true, valid, or right <the pleading did not state a colorable claim>.2. Intended to deceive; counterfeit <the court found the conveyance of exempt property to be a colorable transfer, and so set it aside>. [Blacks Law 8th]

color,n.1. Appearance, guise, or semblance; esp., the appearance of a legal claim to a right, authority, or office <color of title> <under color of state law>.2.Common-law pleading. An apparent, but legally insufficient, right or ground of action, admitted in a defendant’s pleading to exist for the plaintiff; esp., a plaintiff’s apparent (and usu. false) right…

  colony,n. Int’l law. 1. A dependent territorial entity subject to the sovereignty of an independent country, but considered part of that country for purposes of relations with third countries. 2. A group of people who live in a new territory but retain ties with their parent country. 3. The territory inhabited by such a…

colon–semicolon form.Patents. A style of writing patent claims that uses a colon after the preamble and       semi-colons       between every two elements. Cf.OUTLINE FORM; SINGLE-PARAGRAPH FORM; SUBPARAGRAPH FORM. COLONUS PARTIARIUS colonus partiarius (k<<schwa>>-loh-n<<schwa>>s pahr-shee-air-ee-<<schwa>>s). [Latin “tenant farmer sharing produce” or “a sharing landholder”] Roman law. A farmer who gave a fixed portion of the farm’s…

colonial law. 1. Law governing a colony or colonies. 2. The body of law in force in the 13 original U.S. colonies before the Declaration of Independence. [Blacks Law 8th]

Collyer doctrine (kol-y<<schwa>>r).Labor law. The principle under which the National Labor Relations Board will refer an issue brought before it to arbitration if the issue is arbitrable under the collective-bargaining agreement. Collyer Insulated Wire, 192 NLRB 837 (1971). Cf. SPIELBERG DOCTRINE . [Cases: Labor Relations  509. C.J.S. Labor Relations §§ 510, 515–516.] [Blacks Law 8th]

collusive joinder.See JOINDER. [Blacks Law 8th]