Patent infringement

also that the court will look into to determine whether a trademark is famous or not, such as, has it been in use for a long period of time, the amount of investment made in endorsing the mark and see whether the mark has been registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Furthermore, the ACPA looks at the potential impact of a domain name on the trademark. The domain…

Introduction The company that I am choosing to analyze throughout this report is Samsung Electronics, a large company that is located within the consumer electronics industry as well as the semiconductors home appliances industry. For the purpose of this report, I will be discussing in detail about the consumer electronic industry because it is much more relevant in today’s economy, especially being a week before Christmas where sales increase. Currently, I am in the process of looking for a…

The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) is a law under the Lanham Act which is created to protect the domain names from trademark violation. The ACPA has certain elements which must be proven to institute cybersquatting under the Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act. One of the requirements in this Act is that the plaintiff needs to show that the defendant registers, trafficked in, or used a domain name. So in the Moon Microsystem v Zucchini trial, John Zucchini who is a coffee shop…

Case 7-1 Ethical Problems with the U.S. Olympic Committee and its Sponsors 1. Why do you think the U.S. Olympic Committee became so ethically dysfunctional? What are the leading factors that have led to the ethical dilemmas the management team is facing? Ethics is an essential part of human life. In almost every decision ethics is the means to our course of action (Landauer & Rowlands, 2001). Our actions would be meaningless and unsystematic without ethics. Generally, humans will set goals…

To better understand, through the company developed a competitive advantage and shareholder value creation activities into a separate business systems to generate a series of values called value chain activities are useful. Porter introduced value chain model that useful in common variety of enterprise. The below figure show the primary and support activities: http://mbatermpapers.com/value-chain-analysis-part-i/ Pizza Hut value chain: Main activities Inbound Logistics This includes all…

MG6503: Midterm Exam Individual Assignment: Apple’s iTunes Music Store Using Porter’s competitive forces model, and competitive strategies, analyze why Apple’s iTunes became the dominant service in downloadable music. Answer the following questions about the Apple Company and iTunes to help frame your report. The industry in this case is the “downloadable music industry”: How did Apple dominate the market when it was not the first mover in the industry? [Who were the first movers? Give a…

This assisted in keeping it at pace to embrace the rapid technological innovation. Initially starting off as photography and imaging company, the company diversified into various other products such as medical equipment, digital cameras and other devices previously mentioned in this paper. With each level of products, Fujifilm was able to achieve groundbreaking profits depending on the preferences of the consumer base at each time (Williams, 2013). The move to decentralize its production bases…

When using information systems, it is essential to ask, “What is the ethical and socially responsible course of action?” A MODEL FOR THINKING ABOUT ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL ISSUES Ethical, social, and political issues are closely linked. The ethical dilemma you may face as a manager of information systems typically is reflected in social and political debate. One way to think about these relationships is given in Figure 4-1. Imagine society as a more or less calm pond on a summer…

The firm’s history of category-defining products like the iPod and iPhone and now the ipad provide sufficient evidence that it is well equipped to continue its path of innovation, by creating a digital lifestyle convergence devices that bridge users’ on their digital lives. The proposed device will be powerful and feature packed, while leveraging the Apple system of seamless integration to create a compelling user experience, presented in an elegant package showcasing the firm’s industry-leading…

Chapter-1 Performer’s rights: new dimension of copyright laws INTRODUCTION Performer’s rights with respect to cinematographic films have always been an area of dispute, this is because the producer is considered as the owner of such work and he can exploit the work for his economic advantage. A cinematographic film consists of a different rights associated to it and producer is considered as the holder of the bundle of rights only because he takes the initiative, like in a company’s case a…