Ethics and Intellectual Property

Trademark : A trademark is a recognizable insignia, phrase or other symbol that denotes a specific product or service and legally differentiates it from all other products. It also serves to exclusively identify a product or service with a specific company, and is a recognition of that company 's ownership of the brand. Trademarked products are generally considered a form of property. Most countries have agencies through which businesses can have their products trademarked. One of the main purposes of having a product trademarked is to protect the product from being used without permission of the source company. Most countries have patent laws which are designed to protect against copyright infringement. International copyright regulation is much more complicated, as there exists no universally recognized patent office.

A trademark protects well-known brand logos and helps differentiate them from similar products or services. When you register for a trademark, you are entitled to display the ® symbol (registered trade mark). If you are registered for this, others must request permission If they wish to use your brand. If permission is not requested, legal action can be

Organizations oftentimes use different examples to enforce possible mistakes occurring within the company. Meetings, conferences, training sessions and other means of insightful education of the laws and ethical obligations of one’s job will eliminate any future doubt of what is allowed in the office, hospital, or anywhere an individual will come in contact with patients.

Under 15 U.S. Code § 1127, a trademark protection is granted on words, symbols, or

Everyday health care workers around the world are faced with tough decisions. The law guides many decisions but some decisions require ethical considerations. Making good ethical decisions is not always as easy as it seems. Making ethical decisions is even harder when the primary intention is to be helpful, but it is beyond an employee’s qualifications.

Establishing a strong brand is critical to business success. Protecting a brand is equally as important. According to Law for Recreation & Sport Managers, they discuss on what exactly is a trademark and is recognized as ”any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, adopted or used by some entity to identify their goods and distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others” (Cotten & Wolohan, 2017). The purpose of a trademark is to protect the owner and to prevent others from using the mark in a way that will cause confusion. In this case, The University of New York (UNY) has filed for federal trademark registration their name and logo, however, the New York Yankees and New York University (NYU) filed an objection on their own expressing that UNY infringed on the Yankees logo and also infringed on the name of New York University as well.

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

Intellectual property (IP) is the meant to protect the creations of the mind, such as inventions for trademarks (sign, design or expression), patents (mechanics, pharmaceuticals, and chemistry), and copyrights (books) used in commerce. By definition it is an intangible property, the product of human ingenuity, protected by law (Johnson & Lau, 2011). Intellectual property needs to be protected for the consumer and for the industries competitiveness. The government and the federal laws can protect intellectual property. The regulations for intellectual property may be far fetching, but they are there for valid reasons. There needs to be a proper balance between content producers and the public good. Those

The long-standing debate on ethics is far from being solved; however, two philosophers have formulated their own theories in determining whether an action is good or bad. John Stuart Mill focuses on a utilitarian perspective and utilizes the idea of consequentialism and on the other hand, Immanuel Kant avoids the consequentialist argument and supports a deontological perspective in analyzing morality and ethics. Both arguments, valid as they may be, strongly contradict one another, mostly on the basis that Kant and Mill look at very different parts of the equation. Both thinkers appeal to a sense of rationality in their reasoning to differentiate right from wrong; however while Mill’s consequentialist theories are valid under certain

This paper is clarifying intellectual property as one of most important keys in innovation and research. It is explaining why government and law makers should support intellectual property right, and also how far government should support intellectual property. Finally, it will mention the two main elements like religious and economy which is the red line for any government and lawmakers who support intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Rights have the right to publish most complete and reliable source information from the time it is discovered the recent developments of the original articles, review articles, case reports, short communications, etc. In all areas of the field and making them freely available through online without any restrictions or any other subscriptions to researchers worldwide. Having copyrights expresses the graphic and who you are it give owners rights to bring forth their work, and to perform your hard work, and to have creative derivative works. However the owners are given economic rights to financially benefit of their work and prohibit others from misusing without the owner’s permission. It is important to realize that copyrights do not protect ideas, only how they're expressed. Here are some examples of Intellectual property drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs basically anything that copy

Some of the most difficult medical decisions to be made are those involving the life of a disabled or non-viable fetus. Such decisions are often filled with ethical and legal dilemmas. The fetus is just one of the many lives affected in the decision making process. In these scenarios, clear communication between the parents of the fetus and the health providers is crucial. Making the wrong decision could result in the weight of a large burden for the rest of one’s life. In this paper I will bring to light the ethical and legal dilemmas involved in beginning of life scenarios, along with examples of such situations, and ways health care providers can avoid such dilemmas.

There is such a legal concept as "intellectual property". Intellectual property is defined as the creation of any intellectual innovation by an individual such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. The law provides him exclusive rights to this innovation and is strictly against theft or plagiarism in any way. Innovators can safeguard their property by one or more of the following: copyright, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and in some jurisdictions trade secrets.. Copyrights, patents, and trade secrets are each authored by different Offices. Each is based on the Laws of Commerce. (LII. Intellectual property). Cultural attitudes, in fact, esteem words and knowledge above that of certain other property, since knowledge is something that cannot be as easily duplicated as, for instance, an article of common furniture can. To illustrate the veneration that contemporary society accords intellectual invention, software is more expensive and valuable than hardware sink the

Firstly, with laws to protect intellectual properties, it prevent and stop other companies from commercially using the protected intellectual properties in the marketplace, allowing the owner company to control the usage of their original