Patent infringement

The development of sound in the cinema happened around the time two major social commotions were going on: the Great Depression and World War II. Before sound came about, most silent films were accompanied ranging from a piano/organ to a full orchestra. Inventors tried joining images to reproduce sound through phonograph records, but it was too difficult to synchronize the sound due to the inadequacy of loudspeakers for theater auditoriums. Finally in 1927, the Warner Brothers released The Jazz…

Government regulation of the economy is the impact of the state on the activities of economic entities in order to ensure normal conditions for the functioning of the market mechanism. All the negative aspects of the market economy can serve as an explanation of the reasons for strengthening the role of government in the economy. The main purpose of the economic activities of the state is to prevent possible negative effects of market regulators. In order to do so, the government provides legal…

These Statutory Companies were engaged were mainly involved in infrastructural works such as building railways, roads and canals meant this meant that there was a real risk of substantial infringement of private rights such as expropriation of property and hence the Doctrine of Ultra Vires was imported from public law. The first application of this doctrine in Company law was in Colman v Eastern Counties Railway Company ; Lord Langdale establishing…

What the Food industry doesn 't want us to see “The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000...Now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused, and the food is becoming more dangerous” (Schlosser). In light of recent outbreaks of salmonella in the US, it is worth reviewing Food, Inc. Despite a failure to draw any sharp political conclusions, the film is damaging the inability of the profit system to…

Canadian company bought a version of the vacuum to Canada. After that Dyson set his own manufacturing facility to sell his machines in Britain which went on sale in 1993 (Crouch et al., 2017). In two year it outsold Hoover. In 1999, Dyson sued for patent infringement when Hoover tried to copy the technique of the vaccum machine (Crouch et al., 2017). When it launched it’s product in the US in 2002, in three years it managed to capture 20% of the market sales ("James Dyson | Biography, Pictures…

Question 2 a) Accrual and Prudence Firstly, one of the accounting concepts is accrual concept. According to defined accrual concept is recognizes the time lag between sales and purchases on one hand, and collection and payment of cash on the other (BusinessDictionary.com, 2014). Accruals Concept of accounting which requires that income and expense must be recognized in the accounting periods to which they relate rather than on cash basis. An exception to this general rule is the cash flow…

rights system of Thailand, and there are two types of patent protection in Thailand, one is equivalent to Australian standard patents, and another one is a petty patent, which is for lower level inventions. (IP Australia 2016).3 IP protection can be a major legal risk when doing business with Thailand, and therefore Investors are strongly recommended to take measure to protect their IP in both host country and home country, as any infringement can lead to loss of business, revenue, reputation…

copyright itself but of contributing to and facilitating other people's infringement. Napster argued that since the files are transferred from user to user and the original files aren't ever in their possession, that they are not acting illegally. After Napster, intellectual property rights have been weakened substantially. Intellectual property rights refers to the general term for the assignment of property rights through patents, copyrights and trademarks. These property rights allow the…

Any factors ranging outside the scope of the internal business environment are all considered external and they cannot be controlled by an organization which must adapt to them to gain competitive advantage. External business environment can be divided into two distinct categories known as macro and micro-environments. As previously mentioned in the internal business environment analysis, a SWOT analysis is also implemented here. It will help analyse opportunities and threats which are the…

During the 20th century, the industrial revolution had three positive effects on the economy. the three important reasons are new technology, transportation, and the assembly line. During the 20th century many things changed for better. Some improvements and inventions changed the way people live and work, others just made things more efficient such as the assembly line invented in 1913 by Henry Ford. Other new technology such as the maxim gun invented by Hiram Maxim in 1884. This invention was…