World Intellectual Property Organization

Sort By:
Page 6 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    Introduction to the Intellectual Property Rights In a general term, intellectual property is any person’s human intellect, which is often protected by law, in order to safeguard its use from another person. The possession of such kind of property generates limited monopoly in the safeguarded property. Intellectual property can be subdivided into copyrights, patents, trademark and trade secrets (Intellectual Property Rights, 2014). The law protects the Intellectual Property so that the people who

    • 856 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The political risk environment is predominantly favorable for international expansion. Singapore has low political risk and was ranked as having the lowest political risk in the continent by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy. Singapore is quite politically stable with a solid government and positive relations with neighboring countries. The political environment of Singapore is very stable. Singapore’s government is a parliamentary republic and The People’s Action Party (PAP) has ruled

    • 1027 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    infringements are that laws state that these acts are illegal, there are additional reasons. In a world where information is increasingly available online, intellectual property must be protected by restricting piracy and illegal copying in order to ensure the livelihoods of content creators, encourage creative thinking, and preserve the United State’s national security and technological prowess. Intellectual property is any idea, book, e-book (an electronic version of a book), song, video, or movie that

    • 1793 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Protection of Intellectual rights in China Abstraction: Along with Chinese economic reform and open-door policy, current Chinese government made great effort in protecting intellectual rights. Since 1983, China has built an integrated legal system to ensure this protection. On the other hand, many foreign investors and governments still have a lot of complains about the current situation in China and have tried to ask Chinese government make more commitment. In this article, we believe that

    • 2688 Words
    • 11 Pages
    • 5 Works Cited
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    ever-expanding technological world are challenged in many different ways. Multiple communication methods and the availability of the Internet have made a large world much smaller in the context of information sharing, so the importance of understanding and utilizing measures to protect intellectual property and copyrights is vital to business success, ethical understanding and acceptance. In the following, I will specifically discuss the concepts of copyright, intellectual property, and piracy. Copyrights

    • 1379 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    protect intellectual property? Why or why not? If media law should protect IP, how long should the protection be in force? Is it ethical to own ideas? Media Law covers media rights and is basically based on court decisions. The three general areas covered are print media, telecommunications and digital communications. Intellectual Property is defined as creations of the mind such as inventions like literary, artistic works, designs, symbols, names and images used in commerce (World Intellectual Property

    • 1059 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Singapore have shifted from the traditionally agriculture based economy to more industrialized regions to match those of the western countries. The regions are still growing owing to numerous market adjustments that attract investors from across the world. The World Bank has become an important source of technical and financial resources that have enabled Hong Kong and Singapore to build adequate capacity for development, share knowledge and facilitate partnership with players in the public and private sectors

    • 1234 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    In China, there are two criteria in determining whether a property should be protected or not: originality and reproducibility. We must first understand the different nature of Chinese characters. Different calligraphers used different techniques and styles to produce great works of art in many different literary or artistic forms. Because of the more intricate nature of characters and the more number of strokes than in any other character system, Chinese character fonts are very unique for its complex

    • 1413 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    interest a person, but, the topic I’m most interested in is entitled intellectual property, by the way, one thing one has to know is US is based on freedom of ownership of property, and also in America, real estate, personally property and intellectual property right has value of business in America and benefits for individuals. The importance of intellectual property was outlined in a Paris convention for the protection of industrial property in 1789, and also in the Berne Convention for the Protection

    • 1814 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Intellectual Property in The US

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 4 Works Cited

    Intellectual Property 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

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 4 Works Cited
    Decent Essays