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Copyright was incorporated to promote advancement of knowledge and to protect the right of the inventor, yet the law’s interpretation to the present society is doing the exact opposite. Intellectual Property consists of two systems in protecting your ideas and inventions, copyrights and patents. Patents are usually used for creators or inventions while copyright is more of expression or ideas like music, movies, etc. The intellectual property, copyright and patents placed in nowadays are causing

Smartphone producers often attempt to get an edge over their competitors by using tactics that involve bending the law and attacking the reputation of rivals. The advancement of the development of new technologies during the past decade is a result of fierce competition between many companies in the mobile industry. While some of a company 's efforts are focused on the development of new features or upgrades to existing technology, many of them are focused on taking down competition by any means

ATENTING ORGANISM “A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing the protected invention for a limited period of time. The scope and reach of biological patents vary among jurisdictions, and may include biological technology and products, genetically modified organisms and genetic material. The applicability of patents to substances and processes wholly or partially natural

How to Patent a Website Idea: Everything You Need to Know If you want to learn how to patent a website idea, it is important that you understand the steps necessary to protect your website idea from others that may try to profit from your idea. For example, a utility patent is the most common type of patent. It covers the functional aspects of an invention. In order for an invention to qualify for patent protection, it must be useful, new, and non-obvious. This means that it must be have some sort

Scientists continue to make significant discoveries pertaining to the human life form. Each healthy human being has the same core element, DNA. DNA composes genes obtained from the parents of the offspring, and the genes go through chromosomal reshuffling. Chromosomal reshuffling is the first step after fertilization, in which the chromosomes switch around to create a new unique strand of forty-six chromosomes that will be in every cell of the offspring for the rest of his/her life. Genetic modification

The patenting of GMO corn and soybean seeds is quite a deceptive business move on Monsanto’s part because it appears to protect the seeds that farmers purchase, but in turn the patents really only look out for the company’s best interest. While Monsanto sues

Section 14(1) of the Income Tax Act states the general deduction formula: "…there shall be deducted all outgoings and expenses wholly and exclusively incurred during that period…in the production of the income". We shall now discuss the general deduction formula, determine deductibility of expenses, and examine non-deductible expenses that are given special concessions. "Wholly and exclusively" The judgment in Bentleys, Stokes and Lowless v Beeson (1952) 2 All ER 82 at 85 clearly highlights that

Stefanie Gallagher Topics in Bioethics, Summer 2015 Abstract The utilization of stored clinically derived human tissue in biomedical research invokes significant ethical concerns over the inherent value of human tissue, informed consent and property rights to ones tissues. In this paper I will argue that standardized informed consent for all future use of human tissues should be legally required but individual ownership over these tissues should not be recognized nor monetarily compensated.

Patents are a particular type of institution that is designed to protect an individual’s intellectual property rights. Britain’s patent system was established in 1624 and rose steeply in the mid-1750s which is around the time that the Industrial Revolution commenced (Moykr, 2009, p. 349). The significance that patents exercised during the Industrial Revolution was influenced by the political events that were occurring during this time. The political events increased the importance of intellectual

Are America patents greatly more beneficial or detrimental to innovation and trade in the economy? Arguable both stances are accurate. Innovation and trade in the national economy is based off the premise of the protection of ones inventions in the form of patents. Without this guarantee innovation would not be valued, only piracy trade would occur stagnating economic progress. On the global economic stance patents are becoming difficult to manipulate in trade deals like the highly controversial