Office Memo TO: Partner Conching FROM: RE: Chloe Hedrin and Herbal Solutions; claim of copyright infringement by Nuway DATE: November 16‚ 2004 ISSUE Will Herbal Solutions be able to claim a fair use defense under 17 U.S.C. § 107 when they are a “for profit” corporation‚ they have created a parody of Nuway’s ad campaign to market their own product‚ and as a result of their parodic marketing promotion‚ Herbal Solutions increased sales for Natra Tab tremendously? SHORT ANSWER
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Born in Chicago‚ Illinois in 1836‚ Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zipper because he was tired of fastening his high –buttoned boots by hand. He was a heavy man who did not like bending over to button his shoes‚ so he decided that he needed to find a replacement to the buttons‚ known today as the zipper. Patented in 1893‚ the Clasp Locker was a moveable guide that meshed two sets of hooks and eyes together. Excited about this new idea‚ Judson also invented a machine to manufacture the Clasp Locker
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Bayer Corporation has been fighting with Natco Pharma ltd. Over compulsory patent license granted to Natco in respect of Bayer’s Kidney and liver cancer drug sorafenibtosylate sold under the brand name Nexavar. The matter was on appeal before the hon’ble Bombay High Court ‘High Court’. Recently‚ the high court upheld the compulsory license granted to Natco and agreed with the findings of the controller of Patents and the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) that the requirements prescribed
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The most important invention of mankind Thinking about important and revolutionary inventions‚ make us visualise something material and sophisticated such as the television‚ the computer‚ the car‚ the airplane and so on. Each one of these elements was indeed very revolutionary and brought fundamental changes for the whole world. Nevertheless I consider that the most significant creation of mankind is also one of the oldest. It’s the elaboration of the graphic system of communication: writing
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Since the beginning of human life‚ enormous changes around us have taken us to a path of scientific progress‚ which in turn has benefited mankind in a number of ways. In every era‚ man has innovated a lot of things in order to cater to his rising needs. Imagine life in the Stone Age! The primitive ways of living just comprised man’s activities revolving around the search for food and shelter. They hunted animals for food and used caves as shelters‚ and animal skin and leaves to cover their bodies
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Case Study 1 – LastMile (pg. 423) The case study on LastMile Corporation II: Choosing a Development Partner‚ is based around the fact that Tom Sherman‚ the president and CEO of LastMile Corporation‚ must decide on who to partner with for the development and launch of LastMile’s new product. There are many factors that Tom considered when determining which company would be the best fit and the main points discussed were carefully analyzed. In Chapter 8 “Developing the Product‚ Service‚ and Value
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Discuss the claim that some areas of knowledge are discovered and others are invented What is the difference between invention and discovery? An invention is when an object or an idea or even a method is created and it didn’t exist where as a discovery is defined as to learn more about something which was already present but not known. Usually invention is something that it is material an object for example whereas discovery is more of a natural process and is therefore in the human nature.
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If necessity is the mother of invention then curiosity is its father - Rupal Bhadu. Everyone says that necessity is the mother of invention and rightly so because had it not been for necessity we would still be living in the stone ages. Man learnt to hunt‚ cook‚ make houses‚ etc. All this was done to fulfill his basic needs. Necessity gives birth to inventions. We tend to invent something because we need it. Even today necessity has us strapping
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It is difficult to value the role of scientific invention of the second half of XX century. But we shouldn’t forget that it is would have been impossible without countless ideas and inventions which mankind had made before. Every minute of our life is history in the making. Nowadays technical progress is developing so fast‚ that people who lived 50 years ago even couldn’t imagine our modern way of life. They couldn’t realize things‚ which is widespread and habitual for us. Today’s events can soon
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Is technology a blessing or a curse? Justify. Which inventions do you think were the most important ones in the history of humankind? At the beginning I would like try to define a technology. What the technology is? Technology is the making‚ usage‚ and knowledge of tools‚ machines‚ techniques‚ crafts‚ systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. Technology is a measure of human development. Technology is part of the life of every human- We can
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