Kmart’s problems by not paying attention to their business environment. As their competitors worked at lowering costs and improving customer service‚ Kmart continued with its strategy to carry as many products as possible and offer promotion after promotion. Even after Charles Conaway took over‚ he continued expanding the products carried rather than focusing on those products that were most profitable. In all respects management failed to embrace technology as a means of improving the business. It
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Case 4: W.L. Gore & Associates: Developing global teams to meet 21st century challenges. 1. What impress you about this company? Is it well managed- why or why not? * The company has been successful grow from small home operations to massive operations and still has the same culture as in the beginning. * The company has a good record of growth and therefore should also have good profits. * The company operates outside the traditional structure like the mission statement‚ a code
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Singapore Patents Act * Rule against double-patenting – S14(3) * Disclosures to be disregarded – S14(4) * Transactions in Patents – S41 * Inventorship and Ownership - S2‚ S19‚ S20‚ S24 * Co-ownership - S46 * Anti-competitive practices‚ tie-in provision S51‚ tie-up S52 * License of Right – S53 * Compulsory licence – S55 * Government rights to use – S56 * Scope of government rights – S60 * Exhaustion of right – S66(2)(g) * Prior Honest User Rights – S71 * Exclusive license – S74 * Effect
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like him with friends possess’d‚ | Wishing I looked like him; wishing I were surrounded by friends‚ | Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope‚ | Wishing I had this man’s skill and that man’s freedom. | With what I most enjoy contented least; | I am least contented with what I used to enjoy most. | Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising‚ | But‚ with these thoughts – almost despising myself‚ | Haply I think on thee‚ and then my state‚ | I‚ by chance‚ think of you and then my melancholy
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versus external benefits involved with mergers and acquisitions offers and interesting insight into what sometimes goes right and often goes wrong when two organizations become one and‚ more importantly‚ offers an approach for maximizing the overall effectiveness of the union. As Basu notes in his article‚ and we have discussed over the semester‚ the external effectiveness of company and brand mergers can be difficult to measure. Measurement is often made more difficult as no clear predetermined
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Central America suffered after contact with European explorers. Unknowingly at the time‚ these explorers carried with them such diseases as small pox‚ malaria‚ measles‚ and yellow fever just to name a few. For the Native Americans‚ who have had no contact with these diseases are practically defenseless‚ which allowed it to spread so quickly. Without a strong enough immune system‚ these outbreaks killed hundreds of thousands if not millions of Native Americans‚ far worse than what weapons and starvation
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Topic 2 Patents and Computer Software (Part 1) What is a Patent? It is a right granted by law to an individual who has created an invention in a form of product or process‚ which is new. In other words‚ a patent simply means a right to an invention. Darcy v. Allin (1602) Co Rep 84 b Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary of Words And Phrases: letters patent for an invention Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: a paper from a government office (the Patent Office) giving someone
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What is the Great Awakening and what happened? What is the Enlightenment and what happened? In the 1730’s and 1740’s‚ a religious movement called the Great Awakening swept through the colonies. Unlike the Great Awakening‚ which stressed religious emotion‚ the Enlightenment emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. In the 1700’s‚ many colonists feared they had lost the religious passion that had driven their ancestors to found the colonies. The Great Awakening revolved around religion
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Patents Wheatley v Drillsafe Ltd. (2001) Wheatley v Drillsafe Ltd. Facts: Wheatley (W)‚ the proprietor and licensee of a European patent relating to a threaded hole cutting device‚ appealed against a decision holding that the patent was invalid on the ground of common general knowledge and accordingly should be revoked‚ and also that‚ in any event‚ there had been no infringement of the patent by Drillsafe (D) and others. Contentions: D maintained‚ inter alia‚ that its use of a semi-penetrating
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Patents Act‚ 1970 Patents Act‚ 1970 is designed to protect inventions in respect of manufacture‚ machine or process of manufacture. On the other hand‚ the Copyright Act‚ 1957 is to protect rights of artists‚ authors‚ producers of films‚ computer software owners etc. Patent is an exclusive rights granted to the patent holder‚ for a limited period‚ as a reward for creative work based on his private initiative. ‘Creativity’ is accorded the status of ‘property’ which can be bought‚ sold‚ licensed or
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