Case Study On Intellectual Property

Confidentiality and information security are the key aspects for an organisation. So an organisation must make sure that it preserves these along with integrity. Any information even if it is a little one, if lost can lead to the non-existence of the organisation.

Protection of intellectual property are investments based on acquired knowledge, thought and effort by one or multiple individuals on behalf of themselves, the business they work for when the property is created, and a financial investment. Each of these – acquired knowledge, thought, physical effort, financial investment – have a value that can be attached as it relates the usefulness or importance of the resulting product. That value will have a level of importance to the individual(s) creating the product and if applicable, the investor providing the funds in support of the creation.

Intellectual property protects legal rights and ownership in the market place through ‘intellectual property rights’. This can include trademarks, copyright, industrial design and patens. These protect brand names, designs and inventions.

Andy is a fourth grade student who spends the majority of his time in a self-contained class. He is classified under the category of ED and is diagnosed with ADHD. Academically, Andy is performing significantly below grade level in reading. He has difficulty is social situation and often demonstrates aggressive behavior. He has been suspended for this behavior several times since the start of the year, even though there is a behavior plan in place according to the school. Andy’s parents have expressed their concerns and requested a functional behavior assessment, and a positive support plan to be put in place. The school has requested an emergency IEP meeting to consider moving Andy to a self-contained classroom for the full day.

Confidentiality within all companies is very important as employees have access to a lot of important information on the company that they could potentially steal, tell others about, post it online or more. Companies have policies in place which are put in place to let their staff know that these such things are unacceptable and helps to reduce this from taking place but will not stop them from their employees doing it. Confidentiality is also important between the company and all their customers and is part of the policy. The companies that hold information on their customers by law are not allowed to give out the information they hold to anyone else without that person’s permission, if this was to happen in the company it will result in actions taking place such as a fine or even worse.

The duty of confidentiality goes beyond undertaking not to divulge confidential information. Confidentiality may seem a very straightforward principle,

Intellectual property is an incredibly complicated facet of the law. In the United States, we have many laws in place to control and limit profiting from others intellectual property. The issue is not only profiting from others intellectual property, but not purchasing the property from the originator as well. We will discuss why it is important to protect this property as well as why it is tremendously difficult to regulate all these safe guards. “Intellectual Property has the shelf life of a banana.” Bill Gates

Roald Dahl’s well-known children’s book, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, depicted a talented inventor of candy known as Willy Wonka. The talented inventor’s creations were constantly under seize by his competitors, specifically Mr. Slugworth, Mr. Fickelgruber, and Mr. Prodnose. Wonka went to extreme measures to ensure his trade secrets, creations, and technologies were kept safe from his competitors. The amount of effort put into protecting his secrets was incredibly overworked. The challenges Willy Wonka faced in protecting his secrets are literary example of the real world obstacles inventors face with their creations. In today’s technological

Today’s businesses often based on the workings of a particular patent or idea, or may depend on a carefully developed clients list-information must be kept secret if they are to maintain a competitive edge. An employee with access to these assets could be seen as an asset to competitors, or he/she may decide to start

Intellectual property is a work that an individual or entity creates. This property may include things such as books, music or ideas. Copyright laws protect musical and literary intellectual creations. This applies whether the authors created the pieces for personal, artistic or business applications. Copyright law assigns ownership to a work, which the owner can then license other individuals or entities to use.

“Confidentiality can be easily breached so each employee in an organization or company should be aware of his responsibilities in maintaining confidentiality of the information delegated to him for the exercise of his duties. For instance, if an employee allows someone to take a glimpse of his computer screen while he is, at that moment, displaying confidential information on the computer screen may have already constituted a breach of confidentiality.”

Before looking at the case I selected and the questions posed in this paper, what is intellectual property? Intellectual property is defined as intangible (not a physical thing, such as an idea) property, the product of human ingenuity, protected by law (Lau, Johnson, Pg. 155, 2001). It is important to have a system in place to be able to register and protect these ideas and intangible property, so that the rightful owners of this property get the proper recognition and possible rewards.

Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law. As such, the code and the approach to determine partnership status is fairly straightforward. Yet, the question that faces the court is not whether one person is a partner, but whether he/she should be treated as a partner for the purpose of resolving the dispute at hand. A threshold issue is from which of the partners may the third party recover. Courts typically protect the interests of a third party in dealings with partnerships.

Intellectual Property (IP) is everywhere. IP is inventions. IP is literary and artistic works. IP is designs or symbols. IP is names and images used in commerce. Almost everything is IP. These things can be protected by patent, copyright, service mark, or trademark. These topics are very complicated; the consolidated version of US patent laws and rules is over 200 pages long. While there are many good things about IP protection, there are also many unnecessary problems with it that should be changed. Some of these problems include IP education, and the lack of it, the time frame that these protections span, and the major lack of solid international laws.

Risks to information confidentiality also refer to information security. As the whole developers’ team has constant and easy access to the information of the entire project, providing a total security become difficulty. Oleg I. (2005) illustrates an example: A developer sends some core files with the source code to his own mailbox on the Yahoo server in order to work at home. This kind of security breach is likely to ruin the contract.