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Bayh-Doyle Act of 1980 that allowed the government to exercise “march-in rights”. The next milestone bill was the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011, or the “Patent Reform Act”, which regulates patents of all industries and “represents the first major legislative adjustment to the U.S. patent system in decades” (Dobson). This demonstrates the symbolic purpose of this bill of bringing hope to

Invents Act, passed on September 16, 2011, was the most significant reform to the patent system in the United States since the Patent Act of 1952, which redefined the patentability of patent to include being nonobvious in addition to new and useful (1). The demanding need for patent reform had been discussed and debated frequently both within the literature focusing on patent trolls and consistently in Congress with the introduction of many patent reform acts that were never enacted: the Patent Reform

The United States Patent Office (“USPTO”) faces criticism from its users and legislators that the timeliness of the patent process and ultimate quality of issued patents are inadequate. In order to address this criticism Congress made several changes to the authorities of the USPTO in the last decade and considered more changes in 2009. Nevertheless, problems persist and some stakeholders argue that reorganizing the USPTO as a government corporation would best alleviate these problems by broadening

influenced by the coalition government strongly (Business Asia, 2010:10). Current President is Pratibha Patil. (BBC News, 2011). As a result, India began to conduct a relatively free liberal market reform. Nonetheless, because of the interests of coalition government members are dissimilar, the speed of market reform is limited (Business Asia, 2010:10). Economic Analysis India’s economy is the fourth largest GDP in terms of purchasing power parity (Gupta and Gupta, 2008:68). Table 1: The Growth of

http://www.blurtit.com/q200168.html http://www.blurtit.com/q200168.html Disney Theme Park to India Disney Theme Park to India Abstract: This report is aim to analyze profitable adventure of The Walt Disney Company to set up Disneyland theme park in India. As one of main emerging markets in Asia, India might be the next destination for The Walt Disney Company to target on. Therefore, this report uses a series of marketing tools to demonstrate the macro-environment and micro-environment

Analysis of Lenovo 's competitive strategies and how can it adapt its core competencies to external changes? Executive Summary Lenovo, a personal computer manufacturing company, has been one of the leading corporations in the PC industry for over 20 years since the company foundation. The brand has been popular among the PC consumers over a long period of time and its reputation reached a peak level especially after acquiring the Personal Computing Division of IBM. The new business acquisition

judicially protect IPR. This includes first considering the nature of IP protection prior to the introduction of formal IPR laws, followed by examining the 3-fold legal system that has been implemented including the Trademark Law, the Copyright Law and the Patent Law. It is finally also necessary to understand the Chinese copyright culture, what this mentality entails, and to what degree is it still accepted in China. Part 1: IP Protection Prior to IPR Laws Primarily, in order to fully grasp the impact of

The Affordable Care Act and the Health Care Industry “Health is the first freedom, for without health, other freedoms are diminished.” Now here in America, we have failed constantly on giving the American people solid, affordable healthcare. The Affordable Care Act has affected the health care industry because of the increasing amount of people being covered for health care, the affordability of applying for healthcare, and the amount of profit being made by the pharmaceutical industry

Japan: An Overview of the Case Law and an Examination of Trends in the Japanese Supreme Court’s Constitutional Oversight,” has the power of judicial review, meaning that it can "determine the constitutionality of any law, order, regulation, or official act” (603). It should be noted, however, says Satoh, that the Supreme Court rarely uses this power of judicial review because of the work of the Cabinet Legislative Bureau, which provides “legal opinions to the Prime Minister and other legislative officials

experimentation (R&E), funding models; one is direct federal research dollars given to industry, typically for basic research, and the other in the use of tax credits for R&D activities. Tax credit policies began in 1981 as part of the Economic Recovery Tax Act (Talley, 2011). The U.S. has long funded R&D, however this funding has steadily decreased with the total in 1976 of just over 1.2% of GDP with dropping below .8% of GDP in 2014 (AAAS, 2014a). As of 2013, South Korea, Finland, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany