"assert rights" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used in a legal or political context, where one would assert their rights in a situation or dispute. For example, "We are asserting our right to have a fair trial in a court of law."
Since rights assertions suggest conclusive reasons, people can be tempted to assert rights when they want to end a discussion instead of continuing it.
Does the consulting contract assert rights to your future IP, and, if so, is it a reasonable assertion?
As citizens we did not assert rights, we supplicated for permission.
In 1703 he discovered an ally in Tibet and an antagonist to Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho when Lha-bzang Khan, fourth successor of Güüshi, sought to assert rights as king that had atrophied under his immediate predecessors.
On the question of standing, it has required that individuals who seek access to Fisa court documents assert rights that are different and greater than those of the general public.
His firm, called ThinkFire, is a licensing gun for hire, helping clients assert rights to their intellectual property.
On March 8 , 1885 Riel and the Métis passed a 10-point "Revolutionary Bill of Rights," in which the Métis asserted rights of possession to their farms.
It has also asserted rights over file formats and so-called "application programming interfaces" that let different types of software interact.
Rich countries are unilaterally asserting rights of private ownership over human and plant genetic sequences, or basic computer codes, or chemical compounds long in use in herbal medicines.
Apple hasn't done much to protect this relationship over the course of the battle, asserting rights in any country it can and alleging infringement at every turn.
Claims 5 and 6 asserted rights not only to the complete BRCA genes, but also to segments as short as 15 base pairs ("mers") in length.
