patent agent is used to facilitate the application process and maintain correspondence with the intellectual property office (CIPO‚ 2013). When applying for a patent‚ you must access the appropriate application form from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office through registry within the site. Along with the patent application form you must also send a document describing the invention in detail (CIPO‚ 2013). A biological sequence listing should be included when applicable in molecular research industries
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unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the quarter‚ representing seven percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. B. Strategic Posture Focus on making the best product‚ and rewards will follow. In fact‚ Apple ’s new partners are signing up in spite of‚ rather than because of‚ Jobs ’ rules of engagement. Apple makes little pretense of building a level playing field‚ but routinely picks favorites—such as Google for building mapping and video applications for the
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BMW Overview This paper explores the strategies and environmental influences (both Internal and External) of a German car giant BMW‚ Bayerische Motoren Werke‚ which has established itself in the niche luxury car market. It has Headquarter in Munich‚ Germany‚ with presence all over the world. The luxury car includes both traditional luxury cars and functional luxury cars. BMW is one of the most successful car companies in Europe and worldwide. Despite experiencing the overall sales slump particularly
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I believe that all business owners want their business to become as big and as great as it could possibly be. I believe that even small bread and breakfast owners want their hotel to become much larger but because of starting working capital they needed to start at the smaller hotel size while they work on ways to make it larger. I think the growth strategy for a bread and breakfast is to go public. The investors and law firm selling their business to share holders means the bread and breakfast will
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A key element of McDonald’s strategy since the beginning has been the policy of the company to own all property on which a McDonald’s outlet was built‚ regardless of whether that location was franchised or company-owned. Rental income varies from property to property‚ but it has been estimated that McDonald’s generates more money from its rent than from its franchise fees. McDonald’s real estate holdings and rent generated from these holdings are an important component of the company’s value and
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Case Study: The Home Depot Preface This Essentials of Strategic Management assignment has been made by three persons which have been working together and individually to finish the assignment properly and in time. Secondly‚ we would like to thank the company whose websites we were able to visit and use‚ to get additional information that we could use for leading the assignment of Home Depot to a successful ending. We can say‚ that it was a pleasure to work on this assignment and would‚ in the
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Chapter 5 Business Level Strategy Successful business model is the product of successful business level strategies. A successful business model can give a company competitive advantage over rivals. To craft a successful business model‚ strategic managers must determine three issues stated below: 1. What to be satisfied-customer’s needs: Customer needs are the wants that can be satisfied by the means of attributes of the products. Customers choose a product based on: A. Product differentiation
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Corporate Strategy for Diversified Firm: (1) selection of industries to compete in (2) how the strategies of the business unit should be coordinated HORIZONTAL STRATEGY – coordinates the goals and strategies of related business units; should exist in the group‚ sector and corporate level; bottom-up H strategy rarely happens (the B unit managers have the resources and influence interrelationships) Emerging new pattern of competition – among clusters of related B units Why H strategy? – Horizontal
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Guidelines IELTS Candidate Photographs 2009 The following guidelines are provided for centres to follow in the management of test day photos; the decision to accept the photographs submitted by a candidate is at the Administrator’s discretion. ▪ Candidates provide two identical colour photographs that are not more than six months old ▪ Cross reference with passport photograph (if the same has been used check the date of issue of the
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samsung b Business Management Quality Innovation with Market-Based Global SCM System Implementation Samsung Electronics‚ a leading Korean company as well as a symbol of the IT industry‚ carried out an innovative project to strengthen its global Supply Chain Management (SCM) execution ability‚ gaining the industry’s interest. Samsung Electronics placed its emphasis on the business management scenario of predicting and preparing for future environmental changes and competitiveness‚ which is one of
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