The Property Rights Descriptor (PRD) is the unique
identification which is attached to every product issued in the
DIPR system. It consists of, at
a minimum, two unique persistent identifiers; One issued by the
Rights Office and the other by the License Office. It would have
the following form:
<PRD>::= <Rights ID> “,”
<License ID>
where <Rights ID>::= <Rights Office
ID> “/” <Rights Office local identifier>
and <License ID>::= <license Office
ID> “/” <License Office local identifier>
(If the two identifiers were to
be part of the Handle System
then the ‘Office ID’s’ would be the naming authorities
or prefixes and the local identifiers would be the item identifiers
or suffixes.)
The issuing of the PRD creates
a virtual product and grants a legal owner certain rights over that
product. A virtual product is an agreement between two parties on
the use of an intellectual product and any physical manifestation
of that virtual product will consist of the PRD and the actual product.
Not a single manifestation of a particular virtual product need
exist but it will still belong to and be available to the identified
owner.
