Case – Intellectual and Digital Property Dispute Intellectual property consists of patent, copyrights and ideas of the mind. Methods of dealing with disputes arising from theft of intellectual property include the uniform trade secrets act, US patent and trademark office and no electronic theft act. Personal property is any tangible property that is attached to the land or building owned or movable items like furniture or a painting. Case Apple vs. Samsung is an intellectual property dispute
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role in protecting intellectual property, distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized under corresponding fields of law. When the United States put into agreement the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) , and opened up a lot of our trade barriers with countries all of the world, the key idea was that we were going to begin to change the face of our economy. We were going to do this by profiting off of our intellectual property and enforcing our
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the business climate and improves the ability of business-focused firms to serve their diverse client base. This event is intended for attorneys who want to expand their knowledge of intellectual property in order to serve better their clients. Intellectual property law affects every kind of business and clients’ rights, obligations, and strategies. Some states confer CLE credits for this seminar. Each attendee will receive a complete set of all seminar materials along with an IP textbook written
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Homework 5 Question #5-3 Issue: what are trade secrets? Why are they protected? Under what circumstances is a party liable at common law for their appropriation? How should these principle apply in this case? Rule: according to the text book page 146, trade secret is a formula, device, idea, process, or other information used in a business that gives the owner a competitive advantage in the market place. The law of trade secrets protects some business processes and information that are not or
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IP theft is the stealing of ideas, inventions, plans, or trade secrets that are deemed intellectually owned by another entity, company, or person. This instance of IP theft was committed by Caterpillar Inc. from Miller UK Ltd. Caterpillar stole trade secrets from Miller. Suit was filed on June 17, 2010. 1 Caterpillar and Miller had a confidentiality contract in 1998 that was a vendor/supplier agreement. The access to each others blueprints, engineers, and manufacturing facilities were all included
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Community Rights and Geographical Indications Introduction The Concept of Community. The first step in considering the meaning of community is to understand that, fundamentally, it is a fluid concept. What one person calls a community may not match another person’s definition. A person may be a member of a community by choice, as with voluntary associations, or by virtue of their innate personal characteristics, such as age, gender, race, or ethnicity. As a result, individuals may belong to multiple
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On just about any company's balance sheet, somewhere between the 'Current Assets' and 'Current Liabilities' sections is a collection of long-lived, revenue-producing assets broken up into two categories - 'Property, Plant, and Equipment' (PP&E) and 'Intangible Assets'. PP&E often contains such non-current assets as land and buildings, motor vehicles, office equipment, computers, and plant and machinery. Intangible Assets is a much broader category including anything from copyrights and patents
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Case 2 – Research in Motion - RIM TM583 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
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12/6/2010 German Copyright The Anglo-American Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by the law to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work, except that it does not protect ideas, only their expression or fixation. Copyright laws are partially standardized through international and regional agreements such as the Bern Convention, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the European copyright directives such as the Rome Convention
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It seems as if more and more there tend to be problems surrounding copyrights, trademarks, patent, and domain names. Litigation is one of the tools used to value the intellectual property of the client. To be able to work effectively at understanding the law one has to understand the grounds surrounding the right to property. E-business laws include; Trademark and patent laws; Consumer protection laws (if you plan to sell online goods/services); Licensing laws and taxation laws. When dealing
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