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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It was through his sustained and visionary campaign that awareness of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has grown amongst Indian academics‚ researchers and corporates. He spearheaded the successful challenge to a US patent on the use of turmeric for wound healing‚ as well as another patent on Basmati rice. These landmark cases have
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its major concern that intellectual’ assets are well marked as per there risk level and properly managed. In this study paper I will try to focus why the management of knowledge professionals and knowledge itself are so critical? and the challenge of protecting intellectual property and the importance of a firm’s dynamic capabilities by Evaluate the company’s policies and procedures in relation to their intellectual assets. If we see as per accounting norms then intellectual or intangible assets
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Case 2– Research in Motion- RIM 1. What were some of the challenges RIM faced to protect its Intellectual Property and how did RIM handle those challenges? There was a legal action between NTP and RIM over the intellectual property. RIM resolved the action. To protect its intellectual property‚ RIM agreed to pay $612.5 million to NTP Inc. to settle the fight. The dispute had threatened to end RIM’s BlackBerry e-mail service to millions of users in the U.S. and has been the subject of a four-year
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It is period for the nation to start taking Intellectual Property property rights extremely By: Md. Nayem Alimul Hyder‚ Lecturer‚ Department. of Law World University of Bangladesh Bangladesh is rapidly taking steps towards establishing itself as a mid-income country. Socio-economic indicators demonstrate that Bangladesh is a strong emerging economy and a culturally enriched nation.This emergence has been gradually recognised worldwide and the international media has reported that Bangladesh
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caught the attention of large retailers. X-IT also managed to fall into Kidde’s scope. Kidde was an already successful company that carried various other fire safety products. They depicted an interest in purchasing X-IT; more particularly just intellectual property of their ladder design and X-IT was not closed to the idea. A fear that most companies hold when collaborating with another is of protecting their proprietary technologies. X-IT had this fear as well and applied for a patent. Unfortunately
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X-IT and Kidde As a start-up company‚ intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets‚ especially as a protective barrier to competing companies. The protection of intellectual property is essential for the livelihood of a young company that is working to get their product to market. As a result‚ when a start-up deems that a competitor has infringed upon their intellectual property‚ it is in their right to take legal action against said competitor for the infringement. This was the case
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fiduciary‚ property‚ reliability‚ transparency‚ dignity. fairness‚ citizenship and responsiveness. Fiduciary Principle. As part of the legal structure of a business organization‚ each officer and director of a company has a legal fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the stakeholders and other employees within the firm. Furthermore‚ there is also an implied fiduciary duty for every employee within the organization to also act in a way that generates positive benefits for the firm. Property Principle
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Chapter 13 KEY ASPECTS OF IP LICENSE AGREEMENTS © 2007 Donald M. Cameron Ogilvy Renault LLP The author thanks Rowena Borenstein for her assistance in writing an earlier version of this paper. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Defining Intellectual Property Rights ............................................................................................... 1 (a) Patents..........................................................................................................................
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ISM UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS GRADUATE STUDIES International Negotiations course Protecting business legitimate interests with non-disclosure‚ noncompete and non-solicitation agreements (Seminar paper) VILNIUS‚ 2012 Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................3 1. Definition and description of non-disclosure‚ non-compete and non-solicitation agreements ...4 1.1. Non-disclosure
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