1.0 INTROUCTION This report will discuss a case study that mainly comprises intellectual property issues. The report will focus to answer the questions in the case study‚ Mcdonald Muckraker. Areas generally examine are the problems that they face currently and problems in the foreseeable future and lastly solutions for the potential problems. 2.0 QUESTION 1 PART: I What are the problems currently? What have they done wrong? Identify the problems. Lack of market and product research Many entrepreneurs
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Sherwin_Galley_7.11_FINAL (Do Not Delete) 7/12/2013 4:33 PM TWO HALVES OF THE COPYRIGHT BARGAIN: DEFINING THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN COPYRIGHT SHERWIN SIY* In her presentation‚ Professor Katyal discussed the fact that copyright allows the creation of a private property right in order to promote the public good.1 This “copyright bargain” is enshrined in the Constitution; in order to meet the ultimate aim of promoting the “Progress of Science and useful Arts‚” the public will subsidize authors
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range of resources relating to issues surrounding academic dishonesty and copyright infringement cases on university campuses. Traditional thought has placed considerable blame for an increase in these cases over the last ten years on the evolution of technology. Close examination of the literature shows that technology has helped to ease a student’s ability to commit acts of academic dishonesty and infringe copyright laws but has not been the sole reason behind acts. Instead a lack of understanding
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massive increase in the long distance purchases made by consumers‚ as geographical barriers is no longer as important as they were. Protection is needed for those businesses who conduct business in ways other than in person. A type of industrial property protection can basically be called patents. This type of protection is used to stimulate the innovation and design of new technology. It basically protects the investments made to develop new technology. Patent protection is usually given in terms
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2). How do IPRs work? Intellectual Property Rights are often seen as “privileges” that one owns for recognition in the case where an owner needs to control and count the costs during a some sort of process‚ such as research and innovation‚ which will help him maintain and hold the incentives for more innovation‚ as its positive to know how the studies are following. These rights allow the owner an exclusive for a limited period of time‚ and during this period the owner can increase the cost of the
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Chapter 3 Exercise / Problems: #1 p. 113 1. [Business Organization and Intellectual Property] Phil Young‚ founder of the Pedal Pushers Company‚ has developed several prototypes of a pedal replacement for children’s bicycles. The Pedal Pusher will replace existing bicycle pedals with an easy-release stirrup to help smaller children hold their feet on the pedals. The Pedal Pusher will glow in the dark and will provide a musical sound as the bicycle is pedaled. Phil plans to purchase materials for
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COURT CASE ANALYSIS 1 An Analysis of A Intellectual Property Court Case Michael Owens Capella University COURT CASE ANALYSIS 2 An Analysis of A Intellectual Property Court Case AT&T owned the copyright for a certain type of software speech code included in Microsoft’s Windows operating system. When Microsoft sent master versions of the software overseas‚ trite them‚ and sold the trite software‚ AT&T sued for copyright infringement. A company is guilty of infringement
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Topic: Understanding unfair Competition in Intellectual Property. Authors: Suyash Sinha (Roll: 56) & Vaibhav Tyagi (Roll: 46) [BBA(LLB)Hons.‚ VIIIth Semester] Summary: The idea of unfair competition has been around for some time and was mentioned as one of the ways of protecting intellectual property as early as 1900 in the Brussels revision of the Paris Convention. It can best be seen as practices that distort the free operation of intellectual property and the reward system that it provides.
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JUDGMENT18/08/1978 BENCH: FAZALALI‚ SYED MURTAZA BENCH: FAZALALI‚ SYED MURTAZA SINGH‚ JASWANT PATHAK‚ R.S. CITATION: 1978 AIR 1613 1979 SCR (1) 218 1978 SCC (4) 118 ACT: Infringement of a copyright in a play in a film-What are the tests-Whether copyright can be claimed in a theme. Suit for damages for infringement of a copyright-What are the principles. HEADNOTE: The appellant-plaintiff is a playwright‚ dramatist and producer of stage plays. The appellant had written and‚ produced a number of plays. The subject
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Intellectual Property and Computer Software: the Ongoing Controversy Introduction Ever since the computer software industry began during the mid-1970’s with the personal computer revolution‚ using intellectual property rights (IPR) to protect software has been controversial. Presently‚ software can be protected using both copyright and patents. The issue of software patentability is particularly contentious. On one side there are the large‚ mainly U.S. based corporations‚ such as IBM‚ Microsoft
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