"Arrow declaration" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Arrow Generics Ltd. v Merck & Co Inc [2007] EWHC 1900 (Pat), in which it was originally suggested that this mechanism would be available as a declaratory relief.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Patent law",
          "orig": "en:Patent law",
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      "glosses": [
        "A declaration or order sought, for reasons of legal certainty, from a court that a product or process to be launched was old (i.e., not novel) or obvious in patent law terms at a particular date, so that the product (or process) cannot be affected by (i.e., cannot infringe) any later granted patent, which would itself necessarily also either lack novelty or inventive step."
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      "id": "en-Arrow_declaration-en-noun-XC1-WQnl",
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          "patent",
          "patent#Noun"
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        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "court",
          "court"
        ],
        [
          "product",
          "product"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "novel",
          "novel"
        ],
        [
          "obvious",
          "obvious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK patent law) A declaration or order sought, for reasons of legal certainty, from a court that a product or process to be launched was old (i.e., not novel) or obvious in patent law terms at a particular date, so that the product (or process) cannot be affected by (i.e., cannot infringe) any later granted patent, which would itself necessarily also either lack novelty or inventive step."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "intellectual-property",
        "law",
        "patent-law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Arrow declaration"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Arrow Generics Ltd. v Merck & Co Inc [2007] EWHC 1900 (Pat), in which it was originally suggested that this mechanism would be available as a declaratory relief.",
  "forms": [
    {
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Arrow declaration (plural Arrow declarations)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Patent law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A declaration or order sought, for reasons of legal certainty, from a court that a product or process to be launched was old (i.e., not novel) or obvious in patent law terms at a particular date, so that the product (or process) cannot be affected by (i.e., cannot infringe) any later granted patent, which would itself necessarily also either lack novelty or inventive step."
      ],
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          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "court",
          "court"
        ],
        [
          "product",
          "product"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
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          "novel",
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          "obvious",
          "obvious"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK patent law) A declaration or order sought, for reasons of legal certainty, from a court that a product or process to be launched was old (i.e., not novel) or obvious in patent law terms at a particular date, so that the product (or process) cannot be affected by (i.e., cannot infringe) any later granted patent, which would itself necessarily also either lack novelty or inventive step."
      ],
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        "intellectual-property",
        "law",
        "patent-law"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "Arrow declaration"
}