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Monetarization of IPRs 1.1. Overview on exploiting different types of IPRs There are mainly four types of IPRs: patents, trade marks, designs and copyrights. In which, “patent to protect new inventions; trademarks that are used by businesses that may define brands, logos, and the shapes of products; design rights and registered designes; and copyright, which provides the owners with protection against unauthorized use of his/her literatery, artistic, and…

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…

The Brief The Trio, a group of young, multi-talented creatives, have created designs for their own clothing line to be sold prêt-a-porter in the market. Prêt-a-porter is one of the two categories that the 12 segments of the fashion industry are organised into (Blackmon, 2007). It is clothing that is mass-produced and is not custom fit to individual clients, which makes up the principle volume of sales in the fashion industry (Blackmon, 2007). The line has been designed to appeal to people aged…

Case Analysis for Silk Soymilk Since the mid 1970’s, White Wave Foods Company has become one of the most recognized, leading, and influential food and beverage corporate establishment in North America and Europe. Throughout the years, multiple subsidiaries have joined the manufacturing giant, including Horizon Organic, Silk, Vega, and many other smaller companies. One of those brands, called Silk, which focuses on manufacturing a variety of healthy and delicious dairy-substitute products, such…

In the modern society, some said that online copyright can well-protected the property owners in general. However, many of the people or authorities are having a lawsuit for fighting their legal power for their works. Therefore, it proves that online copyright has both achievement and limitation of it. In addition, our artifact can show the difference and relationship of different related elements in various ways. First of all, copyright can gives patenting a protection. In my own knowledge,…

negative effects of market regulators. In order to do so, the government provides legal laws that determine conditions and requirements for normal functioning of the market entities. Such laws include Antitrust Improvement Act (1976), Trademark Counterfeiting Act (1980), Trademark Law Revision Act (1988), Nutrition Labeling and Education…

Michael Porter five competitive forces that explain the superior or inferior performance/economic returns of an industry. The five forces are: bargaining power of suppliers, threat of new entrants, rivalry, substitutes, bargaining power of the buyers. This model provides firm level insights in terms of: where power lies, areas where the business can venture into to capitalize on its strength and areas of weaknesses which firms can improve on. Overall, these forces help businesses to make…

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…

The first Law on Industrial Property in Iran was in 1925, which came into force from 1926 and Registration Authority was working under the Ministry of agriculture, trade and public services. Trademarks were recorded in a journal called the Journal of Agriculture (published from August 22, 1928) in order of insertion of registration number. For the first time in Iran patent law and its civil and criminal protection applied in 1931 and the grant of the relevant license were assigned to the…

Copyrights serve an artist, inventor, or business/ corporation the exclusive rights to his or her material/ products. Commonly, copyrights are used in defense of others who may claim another person’s/ corporation’s product. Therefore I believe that it is integral to protect the products of an individual or corporation. According to Richard A. Epstein, in his book titled, “The Creators Own Ideas”, he suggests that since we have private rights in land for a community we therefore should have…