...Assignment 4: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property Submitted by: Professor: LEG 500 Date of Submission: Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety and examine whether PharmaCARE violated any of the issues in question. The ethical issues are based on the social code and daily morality. Since the discussion is based on customer loyalty, stem cell research and abortion. Yet this invokes some serious arguments which proves that there are ethical issues which are yet of considerable concerns and need to be addressed. The ethical issues that are faced by the company mostly revolve around the morals and principles of the right and the wrongful actions. Here the focus is also on the moral approvals in terms of the what is viewed correct by individuals in certain professions. The main ethical issues however arise from advertising, personal selling, suppliers, contracts and pricing. Some of the main ethical issues that relate to the business are based mainly in terms of market research, audiences and pricing. The market researches can invade the privacy of the customers. In addition, in terms of the research, there is a high chance that these can be conducted based on stereotypes, which can be unethical. It is important for companies to use the market research as a means of marketing and a means to attain feedback for...
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... 4 RUNNING HEAD: LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN MARKETING, PRODUCT SAFETY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN MARKETING, PRODUCT SAFETY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [Student Name] [Instructor’s Name] [Date] [Course Name] Introduction This paper is concern with legal and ethical issues in advertising, marketing, regulations and intellectual property of product safety with respect to PharmaCARE which is a pharmaceutical company. The paper includes the information regarding drug companies, Direct to Consumers (DTC) marketing. Next we will determine the role of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in regulatory schemes of pharmacies and determine that whether FDA empower over compounding pharmacies. In this paper, I have to make decision about PharmaCARE that whether the company use of intellectual property of Colberia. After this, I will analyze PharmaCARE ways to use US laws to protect intellectual property to coop with intellectual property in Colberia. To compensate the people of suffered from damages due to usage of AD23 will be studied and different suggestions will be made to compensate them. In the end, three changes will be recommended to PharmaCARE to go forward ethically. 1-Ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety and examine whether PharmaCARE violated any of the issues in question. Ethical...
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...the company produces include but not limited to plastic bottles and containers, fans, medical stents and fans. With the corporate headquarters located in San Jose, CA, the company has several production facilities in Georgia, Michigan, and also a joint partnership within China. Today, we will present to the Officers and Directors of Riordan a Comprehensive Corporate Compliance plan to help assist Riordan continual mission and growth to which will be determined on how well the company can handle and manage compliance issues. We will cover how to manage the legal liability of officers and directors of the company, how to properly address situations when the law is violated, enterprise liability, protecting the company’s real and intellectual property, governance, and international laws that the company must follow. Management Responsibilities and Guidelines Riordan very own Employee Handbook states the internal environment at Riordan as branded by the highest ethical standards, integrity and customer trust, all which helps establish goals that support Riordan’s corporate mission. The Employee Handbook provides the four main goals for the company: Company growth through Research and Development as an Industry Leader, Sustaining Customer Relations, Internal Employee Satisfaction and...
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...Of the six Principles in the AICPA Code (Responsibilities, The Public Interest, Integrity, Objectivity & Independence, Due Care, and Scope & Nature of Services) I believe the three most important are Responsibility, Integrity and Due Care. While most of the principles are inter-related it is the customer/ public that must be taken care of first and not our personal interests. To protect the client we must first understand the responsibilities as a CPA. “The overriding responsibility of CPAs is to exercise sensitive and moral judgments in all activities. “ In meeting our obligations it is important to realize that our morals and ethics should be a huge factor in the way we conduct business and treat our clients (Mintz & Morris, 2011, Chapter Chapter 1). Integrity “recognizes that the public trust is served by (1) being honest and candid within the constraints of client confidentiality; (2) not subordinating the public trust to personal gain and advantage; (3) observing both the form and spirit of technical and ethical standards; and (4) observing the principles of objectivity and of due care.” As professionals we must have the clients trust to fully do our jobs. If the client doesn’t trust you as a professional then how can they trust your work product. Even the perception of wrongdoing can lose all trust. CPAs must be able to not only always follow the rules, but also the appearance of always doing the correct thing (Mintz & Morris, 2011, Chapter Chapter...
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...Intellectually property refers to creation of ideas such as inventions, literary and artistic works and symbols, names, and images used in commerce. Intellectual property divided into two categories such as industrial property and copyright. Industrial property obtains patents for invention, trademark, industrial designs and geographical indication whereas copyright includes literary works and artistic works. Literary works such as novels, musical works and others whereas artistic works such as paintings, architectural design and others. Copyright-related rights include performing artists performing in performances, producers of phonetic symbol and broadcasters in radio and television programs (WIPO, 2003, p.2). There have four types of intellectually...
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...and Intellectual Property Three Ethical Issues When looking at PharmaCARE’s relationship with the Colberians, you see that the company’s treatment of the indigenous population is unethical. In terms of intellectual property, the scenario in Assignment 2 highlights the exploitation of the Colberians. While the indigenous population freely shares their information about their cures, the company exploits them by not compensating them for their shared knowledge. According to labor laws, companies should work ethically and treat all of their employees fair -- not equal, but fair. Some employees, based on their position and level of responsibility, should be paid more and should receive better perks than others. However, the company is earning millions of dollars from the knowledge being shared by the healers, and its executives live in luxury with swimming pools, tennis courts, and a golf course, while the Colberians continue to live in huts without electricity or running water. If the company compensated the healers for their intellectual property, the Colberians could improve their living conditions. PharmaCARE is taking advantage of this group of stakeholders because the healers are uneducated, ignorant to intellectual property laws, and do not know the true value of the information they are sharing with PharmaCARE. According to authors S.C. Jain and R. Bird, the Trade-Related Aspect of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is considered the most relevant intellectual property...
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...Johnathan Bailey Ethical Thinking in the Liberal Arts Grand Canyon University Intellectual Property assignment The main points of the article is that protecting intellectual property is highly important in this information age. The reasons happen to be that people steal information all the times from others, use this information as their own, patent it, even though it wasn't theres. I feel that its important for inventors or just every day people to protect what they make, people happen to be very shifty in this society, everyone is out to gain a dollar, but some people happen to be so ruthless that they will steal at all costs, and may even try to destroy the original proprietor from making any gain at all. The right of the property is based on the rights of the owner and happen to be granted in various markets. Intellectual property is a valid way to protect inventors, musicians, painters so that they can share their work with the world. I feel that people make they deserve to absolute protection over their achievements. The common types of copyrights that happen to be protected happen under intellectual property, happen to be trade marks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets. The ideas that happen to be valid is that protection of intellectual property is important, that any one who invents something needs to patent it correctly, and that is why intellectual property is protected in America, by the American invents act. This is good for corporations...
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...identified in item b? How well does it align with Alumina’s values? Learning Objectives See Week 3 objectives listed in the rEsource material or module. Required Reading Read the materials for Week 3 on your rEsourceSM course page. Read Ch. 7, 13, 14, 15, and 17 of Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment. Assignments Run the “Contract Creation and Management” Simulation on your own before meeting with your Learning Team. Identify the elements of a contract and specify where (or if) they are present in the simulation. For purposes of helping you to analyze the assignment, divide the Learning Team into two sides, one representing the party needing the software and the other representing the party designing the software. Each party should identify its needs and risks given the situation. Working together, both parties should create mutually agreed upon contract provisions, including a provision to resolve contract disputes, that would allow both parties to meet their needs and minimize their risks. Also keep in mind the need to design a process to accommodate changes in the project scope or timetable. For the graded assignment, cas a...
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...FAMILY NAME GIVEN NAME(S) ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET STUDENT ID TUTOR’S NAME TUTORIAL DAY/ TIME UNIT CODE ASSESSMENT TYPE Please tick one box DUE DATE Tutorial Assignment ASSESSMENT # Other TURN IT IN # If applicable If applicable DECLARATION I certify that: . . . . . . . . . . This assessment is my own work, based on my personal study and/or research; I have acknowledged all material and sources used in the preparation of this assessment, including any material generated in the course of my employment; If this assessment was based on collaborative preparatory work, as approved by the teachers of the unit, I have not submitted substantially the same final version of any material as another student; Neither the assessment, nor substantial parts of it, have been previously submitted for assessment in this or any other institution; I have not copied in part, or in whole, or otherwise plagiarised the work of other students; I have read and I understand the criteria used for assessment; The assessment is within the word and page limits specified in the unit outline; The use of any material in this assessment does not infringe the intellectual property / copyright of a third party; I understand that this assessment may undergo electronic detection for plagiarism, and a copy of the assessment may be retained in a database and used to make comparisons with other assessments in future. Work retained in a database is anonymous...
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...An Updated Guide to Establishing a Subsidiary in India by fred m. greguras, s.r. gopalan and steven s. levine Businesses in the U.S. continue to move a portion of their development, support and other operations offshore to India, primarily for cost-saving reasons. Venture capital investors may require such outsourcing in order to reduce a company’s burn rate. While a U.S. company may initially contract for services with a third party in India, many companies establish their operations in India through incorporation of a subsidiary, a private limited company under the India Companies Act of 1956, as amended (the “Companies Act”). This memorandum summarizes certain of the legal and administrative issues that a U.S. company (the “U.S. company”) should consider in establishing an Indian subsidiary. Where to Locate the Subsidiary A key factor is the availability of a reliable employee pool with required skill sets for the services. Many U.S. software companies have established a subsidiary in Bangalore in the State of Karnataka because of its skilled work force, communications infrastructure and business friendly environment. On the other hand, Hyderabad is the center of life sciences activity in India. U.S. companies are increasingly considering establishing operations in locations other than Bangalore, such as in the cities of Pune and Chennai, that have lower costs, less competition for employees and a less mobile workforce. Employee benefits and other indirect and direct expenses...
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...OVERALL CRITERION ACHIEVED - MCY Verbal feedback given P3 - YOU HAVE DESCRIBED THE MAIN PHYSICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES REQUIRED IN THE OPERATION OF A SELECTED COMPANY M1 - You have explained how the management of human, physical and technological resources can improve the performance of a selected organisation In this document i will be covering the main physical and technological resources required in the operations of GCC. Physical Resources Emergence Provision The health and safety act of 1974 requires businesses to have provisions and plans for what to do in the case of an emergency. The business needs to be constantly thinking about the safety of their employee’s and how to keep them safe. ✓ This can be as little as a wet floor sign. The emergencies that businesses need to deal with are things like fires, power cuts and floods ect… With a fire for example GCC will have fire extinguishers around the buildings, they will also practice fire drills where they will practise how to get out of the building and where they go to so they can make sure everyone can get out of the building safely. This can improve the performance of GCC because they will be able to successfully take care of all the students and employees in the case of the emergencies that they have prepared for.✓ Plant and Machinery Plants and machinery are usually things that businesses buy or rent and the business will only get these things if they are necessary...
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...Coretta Brown Assignment 4: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property LEG500 August 25, 2014 Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you: http://www.insidebusiness360.com/index.php/ethical-issues-faced-by-marketers-18696/ Legal and ethical situations have been a topic in the business world since day one. Legal and ethical can sometimes be confusing in the work place if there are not rule and regulation to abide by in the organization. Legal is an act according to law, not in violation of law or anything related to the law. Ethical involving questions of right and wrong behavior relating to ethics and following accepted rules of behavior that are morally right and good. 1. Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety and examine whether PharmaCARE violated any of the issues in question. Marketing is the total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer. Advertising is the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, and on billboards. According to Mathenge,“Over the years, advertising and marketing communication messages have created a lot of debatable ethical issues, due to the public belief , that advertisements...
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...Course Design Guide College of Information Systems & Technology ENG/221 Version 5 Technical Writing Fundamentals Copyright © 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course covers the fundamentals and best practices of using written communication in business and in the information technologies. Topics include strategies, techniques, and nuances for producing e-mails, memos, reports, proposals, project specifications, and user manuals, as well as other technical documents. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Dobrin, S. I., Keller, C. J., & Weisser, C. R. (2010). Technical communication in the twenty-first century (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Gerson, S. J., & Gerson, S. M. (2012). Technical communication: Process and product (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. All electronic...
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...Business Behaviour: We are a group of business professionals learning together. As such, prompt arrival in class, timeliness of assignment delivery, staying throughout the lecture, limited eating – particularly no crunching sounds, respectful listening, questioning, and participation, and adherence to the guidelines within this syllabus is the expectation. Exercise sensitivity to the global nature of the classroom, and attempt to anticipate the perception not only in your “home” culture but those represented in the classroom in all that you do. In business, your words and your actions are your credibility. You should strive to never to anything to diminish this precious resource. In-Class Activities: Use of computers is encouraged for note-taking and supplemental activity such as researching a current topic. Use of computers for other activities is considered a lack of attention and respect, and will diminish your participation grade. Intellectual Property Consideration: Course lectures, in whole or in part, are not to be recorded or broadcast in any fashion. I will strive to insure that every piece of material shared with you throughout this course will include the appropriate copyright protection for the owner. You will do the same. Whether or not an assignment specifically requires citation is irrelevant – you will protect the work of intellectual property owners in all...
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...the performance of companies in light of their multiple constituencies, in both international and US environments. Topics include integrated strategy, activists and the media, legislation affecting business, lobbying, regulation and antitrust, intellectual property, international trade policy, and business ethics. Most core courses focus on firms’ interactions with customers, suppliers, and alliance partners in the form of mutually beneficial exchange transacted in markets. In contrast, this course considers the strategic interactions of firms with comparably important constituents, organizations, and institutions outside of markets. Issues considered include those involving activist and interest groups, the media, legislatures, regulatory and antitrust agencies, and international organizations such as the WTO. Markets and the business environment are increasingly interrelated: issues such as boycotts, legislation, regulation, judicial decisions, and trade policy directly affect firms’ market performance. Conversely, the profit-maximizing activities of firms often give rise to issues that involve governments and the public. For example, the market strategies of some ecommerce firms have sparked debates ranging from intellectual property protection to Internet privacy. Correspondingly, managerial decision-making almost always has ethical implications. More often than not, however, those ethical implications are viewed as implicit byproducts, rather than explicit...
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