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Gilead Sciences (GILD) is a well-established pharmaceutical company with international operations. The company has a patent to a variety of revolutionary drugs including Genvoya, Atripla, Zydelig, Ranexa, and Ambisome. Its drugs are designed to tackle a variety of illnesses which range from liver disease to cystic fibrosis and even cancer. Its biggest revenue drivers so far have been the drugs Harvoni and Solvodi which are designed to treat hepatitis c. In addition to researching and…

You cannot use any aspect of someone else’s design, images or text when producing your own work unless you have their explicit permission. Making changes to someone else’s copyright material also doesn’t help you avoid a copyright infringement—you still need the original copyright holder’s permission. The Copyright Council of Australia explain that “If, for example, you want to use something someone else has created – on your website, or in a brochure, or even for purely personal purposes –…

A recent case that has exploded into the social media world, is the trademark case between, multibillion dollar corporation, Walt Disney Studios and famous DJ/musician ‘Deadmau5’ aka Joel Zimmerman. The legal dispute raged many fans supporting Zimmerman’s defence as Disney claimed that the signature mouse ears used in Zimmerman’s logo was “nearly identical in appearance, connotation, and overall commercial impression” to their own “iconic” mouse ears which Disney uses in there ‘Mickey Mouse’…

Geoffrey Israel STL 4313 3/28/16 With Freedom and Justice for All. In her book, From Goods to a Good Life – Intellectual Property and Global Justice, Madhavi Sunder explores the rich connections between cultural production and human freedom. Sunder states that, “Intellectual property does more than incentivize the production of more goods, the law fundamentally affects the ability of citizens to live a good life”. This book takes a look at intellectual property and develops an understanding…

Intellectual assets are important drivers of wealth creation and competitive advantages. Boeing’s human and social capital, technology, and intellectual property rights all contribute to value of the company. Human capital is the foundation of intellectual capital at any firm. Boeing’s employees make the company possible. Employees are hired for their specific set of skills that will allow them to excel in a certain position. While these capabilities are obviously necessary, Boeing expects more…

In conclusion, we must be aware, understand the advertisement traps and then do something about it. In a New York Times article by Brian X. Chen and Natasha Singer, they summarize the whole concept of online marketers. Advertisements are finding new ways to trick us into looking and then becoming engaged in their products. They are using high quality software to track you; by attaching cookies onto our devices. This is the “Global Commercial Surveillance” and the “Holy Grail” for marketing…

Myth 4: “TPP is a secret backdoor for a parade of horrible (and TPA lets that happen)!” This myth is simply not true. May politicians and other political anti TPP groups have perpetrated this rumor. One of the largest perpetrators of this myth are claims such as ‘’that TPA will permit President Obama to by pass congress and use the TPP as a backdoor to, among other things, lawlessly expand immigrations, curtail gun rights, or restrict internet freedom.” However ridiculous the claims the fact…

FSA Pre-assessment In the chance that I would have a say in the use of another artist's music within the school blog, it would be rejected. Even though others could use the music as a way of promotion or advertising for the artist, the use of a song from another artist has a multitude of negative outcomes which could occur from the implementation of music from another musician which includes loss of money, face and also criticism from peers and fans which adversely affect the artist(s) and…

Is Youtube dying? A Lot of people think think that youtube is dying due to the fact that the new youtube rules that the youtube channels have to follow. Such as no bullying and no violent content. For gamers this is a crushing blow to their channel that they have worked so hard to obtain. For youtube to do this is a question that still lingers in the mind of a lot of youtube fans and channel creators who built their channels through this. Does this mean that if the creators do not comply would…

INTRODUCTION Computer software, or simply software, also known as computer programs, is the non-tangible elements of computers. It signifies the set of programs that govern the operation of a computer system and make the hardware run. Software is commonly written in high-level programming languages that are easier and more effective for humans to use than machine language. High-level languages are compiled or created into machine language object code. Software piracy: The unlicensed copying of…