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Intellectual Property Law is a very panoramic assemblage of law; its regards Patents, Trade Marks, and Copyrights. Intellectual Property establishes a very critical role in the improvement of consumer enterprise and acts a driving force for innovation. IP 's are adverted as “ownership of the mind 's products”(Cooter, Ulen, 124); Intellectual property is secured by the law through patents, copyrights and trademarks; this protective screening allows individuals(inventors) the prospect of…

expire each year. The dramatic increase in price is due to the monopoly that EpiPen has over the industry of epinephrine. After a company creates a unique drug, it is issued a patent that prevents any other sellers from entering the industry, giving the single company the power to charge whatever price that they see fit. Patents give pharmaceutical companies monopolies…

readings, (Findlaw, 2015) "A patent permits a patentee to exclude others from making, selling, or using the patented invention and from importing the patented invention or an article made by a patented process into the United States". Based from my findings from the "Readings ", Utility patents provide protection for useful inventions, which may be processes, machines, articles of manufacture, or compositions of matter. Its logical that Jimmy applies for a Utility patent, since his invention…

innovation through increased enforcement of intellectual property rights. To solidify its position in the global intellectual property market, China joined WIPO in 1980 and the Paris Convention on Industrial Property in 1985. Additionally, China signed the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 1994, registered all trademarks with the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1990, and became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.15 To comply with the…

Patents. They allow an individual to own their own invention. An inventor is normally thought of as someone in the world of science, but this is not always true. Is John Pemberton, the man who created coca cola not considered an inventor? Inventors are everywhere around us from chemists looking to make the next coca cola to engineers trying to optimize the production of a substance, but what happens if someone were to try and steal another’s invention and take credit for it, that is where a…

the labor laws in these countries are so poor, Nike only has to pay a fraction of the cost of production if it was done in the United States. The impact of the Punta d Este GATT meeting on today’s intellectual property rights is that instead of the patent insuring the final product of the invention, it insured the entire process including the end result. This made sure that countries could not innovate and use the previous ideas of major corporations to benefit their local…

In Diamond v. Chakrabarty Case (16th June, 1980), the Supreme court has ruled that businesses that develop modified organisms should be able to preserve their property rights by patenting such organisms. This is because the court believed that the innovator of a new idea shoud be recognized and deserved some credit when others used. Moreover, the court argued that the worthwhile idea can benefit society as a whole if it was widely available. (Princeton University, n.d.) Actually, the law for…

A noted case: Google, Inc. vs. American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, Inc., Case Facts: Google, Inc. v. American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, Inc., that happened was a decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that challenged the legality of Google's AdWords program. The court concluded that Google AdWords may be in violation of the law resulting in trademark infringement because it (1) allowed arbitrary advertisers to key their ads to American Blind's…

1. Should someone be able to patent life? Life should be able to be patented with many exceptions. Anything with a brain should not be able to be patented as that would be inhumane. However, tampering with the genes of other forms of life can become helpful to society. For example, microbes that can eat up oil spills can save many other living beings in the ocean. As well as this, having variety in foods is vital to prevent diseases wiping out a species of food that many people rely on. It…

The Mother’s Rebirth The story “Daughter of Invention” by Julia Alvarez is about self-renovation/rebirth which Alvarez examines through conflict. “When we no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.” –Vito Frankl. Frankl’s point was often you must change yourself or an aspect befitting your predicament. What I’ve observed is each character goes through a change/renovation. Each developing differently based on their experiences and circumstances. In this essay,…