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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← INDEX 1. Introduction 02 2. World Trade Organization (WTO) 04 3. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 05 4. Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) 07 5. Trademarks 10 a. Types of Trademarks 10 b. Section II (TRIPS) 11 c. Trend in Trademark applications 18 d. Country comparison 19 e. Case study: Redbull v/s Unasi Management Inc. 20 6.
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Research In Motion: A Study in International Intellectual Property by Paul A. Langfield‚ M.S. An Introduction to Research In Motion (RIM) Canadian-based company Research In Motion (RIM) is an excellent case study in the challenges associated with Intellectual Property rights‚ especially in light of the company’s need to operate within the Intellectual Property frameworks of countries across the globe. Started by then twenty-three year old‚ Mike Lazardis in 1984‚ RIM has been involved
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Why should we protect intellectual property? (By Igor Gorshkov‚ for Sr. Carlos Rivadulla Oliva – Intellectual property) I’d like to start my answer with a simple example‚ that comes to my mind: You know “Kalashnikov” automatic gun‚ right. On of the most popular automatic guns in the whole world‚ that combines in itself simplicity‚ reliability and at the same time effectiveness. It was invented in the USSR in 1947 by a very smart Russian scientist Michal Kalashnikov. How ever‚ not many
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“Are intellectual property laws ruining the game & graphic design industry?” Have you ever woken up one morning with the idea to create an invention that no one else knows about? Well what if I told you that someone was able to steal your idea without being charged a cent. You’d feel a lot of anger and frustration building up inside you right? This is the turning point where you take matters into your own hands‚ but how would you do that without knowing what to do? Yep you guessed it‚ Welcome
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Carla Hesse’s article‚ "The Rise of Intellectual Property” provide a history about intellectual property focusing on the area of 700 B.C. to A.D. 2000. Hesse explains the coming of intellectual property and how IP was viewed in the Middle Ages. She discusses two varying perspectives of IP. The first perspective she explores IP laws from a social utilitarian point of view. She states that creators are given rights over their ideas because in doing so other creators are encouraged
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The Modest Proposal --Rescind the intelligence property right It is a nuisance to stroll in the pedestrian street with a wide range of products and shops in Shenzhen‚ where is hot and crowded with a multitude of consumers. Most of them are industrious and earthy factory labors‚ working hard every day to finish their grueling tasks and saving every penny through every aspect of their lives. When shopping‚ budget will always come to be their priority--those products which are at low-cost but with
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[pic] Assignment on Intellectual Property Comparison Between Developed And Developing Country. Submitted to Fahmida Hasan Department of Business Administration Submitted by: |Razuan Ahmed 2010-2-10-071 Section : 1 Course No : BUS 361 Course Name: Legal Environment Of Business Transmittal
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IBUS 3312 - International Management Pharmaceutical Companies‚ Intellectual Property‚ and the Global AIDS Epidemic Analysis While this case is literally full of negative aspects‚ we will only focus on the main points for both arguments. Pharmaceutical companies want to be sure that the products they spend years and millions of dollars to create are not easily reproduced and sold at discount prices. The profits pharmaceuticals make of their patented products are supposed to refinance
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The economic concept of private property refers to the rights owners have to the exclusive use and disposal of a physical object. Property is not a table‚ a chair‚ or an acre of land. It is the bundle of rights which the owner is entitled to employ those objects. The alternative (collectivist) view is that private property consists merely of a legal deed to an object with the use and disposal of the object subject to the whims and mercies of the state. Under this latter view‚ the state retains ownership
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