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Do Intellectual Property Laws Promote Corporate Greed

admin — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

As technology continues to grow, so will Intellectual Property or IP. IP has become a major topic of interest in the music, gaming, and marketing sectors of business. The reason this has become such an issue involves the patenting of one’s ideas. The laws being passed are attempting to protect the property owner while still allowing corporations to maintain profitability throughout the process. This is creating quite a stir in the business world. If you look at the laws currently in place, the short answer is no.I found some more information here. These laws do not promote greed within the IP world. In fact, the only time you see IP being abused is when the individual disagrees with the company and attempts to abandon the agreed contract. To avoid this issue a person that feels the IP is not being honored properly, should not enter into the contract. From one perspective it would appear greed from both sides caused the dissolution. One party wishes to lease to IP for major profits and the corporate party wishes to control the IP for as long as it remains profitable. Regardless, it is not the laws that actually create the greed; the people involved do that to themselves.

What can be Patented: The Limits of Intellectual Property Rights

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The idea of the patent has noble intentions. The concept was created to promote the progress of science and useful arts. In other words, it gives the people who define our culture and build our economy an incentive to keep working on the next big thing

In the general, an invention has to meet 4 different criteria in order to be patentable. It has to be:

-Useful
-Novel
-Non-obvious
-Of “Patentable Subject Matter”

The first three seem fairly logical. The last one is what makes patent law tricky, and has been the subject of many legal disputes. Generally, patentable subject matter has to be an actual invention that has commercial and/or industrial applications. The details on what is patentable vary from country to country somewhat. In general Europe’s requirements tend to be more specific compared to those of the United States, which are broader. In the U.S., this has made room for more intangible and abstract things to be patented- such as “financial products”.

Originally these requirements eliminated things such as artistic creations, mathematical formulae/algorithms, and living things.

In today’s world examples of each of these things have been patented”right down to parts of the human genome. This has led some to the conclusion that there is virtually nothing that cannot be patented, which has in turn caused many to criticize the way patents are awarded.

Intellectual Property and the Internet Exchange

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

With the dawning of the digital age, so many things have come into question. More often than not, people are becoming more and more concerned about how to keep copyrighted things safe when transferred over the internet. There has been a lot of fuss over this lately and it is extremely important to be able to tell a client who wants to sell online that their items will be safe from piracy. There are all sorts of things than can be done to ensure that this happens, so it is imperative that any and all clients be made aware of the steps which will be taken to protect their intellectual property.

Depending on the kind of files being transferred, one of the best options to offer is DRM protection. This works with digital movie and music files and it is mainly utilized to keep anyone who downloads the product from making copies or transferring the files to other people who haven’t paid for it. This is an excellent way to keep intellectual property safe from theft and unauthorized use. Aside from copy protection, the best way is to make an attempt to monitor the people who are downloading legally and try to figure out which sites the illegal users are accessing and stop them in their tracks.

Starting Your Business Website

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

There’s nothing like starting your own business but whether you’re looking into business t1 or starting your own website you’ve got to cross all your Ts and dot all your Is. If you’re creating a business website with a lot of information, here are a few things you should keep in mind:
Consider hiring a writer: If you’re concerned you may not have the right “voice” or style to get your site off on the right foot, think about hiring a writer. You won’t have to worry about intellectual property rights as long as you pay them in full.
Link to other sites: If you want to say something but it’s already been said better elsewhere on the web, consider linking out. As long as you give full author’s credit you’ll look authoritative, well read and you won’t be in violation of any intellectual laws.
Write it yourself: If you’ve got the know how and the writing ability, write the site yourself. No one can say it better than you and you know that content is 100 yours!

Reconciling Intellectual Property Rights and Medication Costs

admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This reconciliation all boils down to one simple fact. Many third world countries are unable to provide decent medical care due to pharmaceutical companies who are refusing to license their intellectual property, i.e. medications, to companies at affordable prices.

Trade negotiations seem to falter between major distribution areas, such as the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and Japan, to wave their intellectual property rights. If they were to do so, smaller nations could develop more generic brands of medications for cheaper costs to the world’s imporverished countries.
Such an agreement could possibly help a struggling economy where many people, even in these providing countries, refuse medication due to costs. Reconciling the problems with intellectual property and medication costs could benefit areas such as the USA. Generic pricing could offset lower costs with a raising amount of consumers who take advantage of changes.

Until pharmaceutical companies feel that the infrastructure of countries such as India, where these generic medications could be manufactured, prove they have the capability to inexpensively produce generic quality, and also recoup expensives, there will be a problem with any major manufacturer relinquishing any rights to their intellectual property for the sake of saving more lives at lower costs.You thought this was good? Brace yourself: The History of Intellectual Property Taxation

Understanding the Basics of Intellectual Property

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Understanding the basics of intellectual property is the first step in securing the basic rights of innovators. The consequences of not protecting and respecting intellectual property are a key issue for encouraging new ideas to drive our world today.

Intellectual property can be defined as property that results from original creative thought. This can include musical compositions, art work, writings, inventions, words, phrases, symbols, common designs, and many more.

One of the biggest issues with intellectual property is protecting it. Legal copyrights, trademarks, patents, and more can help in protecting intellectual property.

The benefits of protecting these ideas can be expansive.Want more? Click here/tag One great incentive is financial incentive. Developing and protecting a secret can often be profited from. The fact that new ideas can bring in income is an incentive for anyone to secure new ideas. The expansion of new ideas leads to economic growth which gives the government an incentive to take measure to ensure that intellectual property is protected. Other than tangible benefits, we also have a moral incentive to respect the ideas of others and therefore, protect their innovative thoughts.

There are challenges to keeping intellectual property safe and as such we must know the benefits and detrimental consequences of not keeping intellectual property safe. By doing this, we will continue to protect innovators and their ideas.

Patent Expirations: Generic Drugs in a Designer Market

admin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Many Americans are paying an arm and a leg for a brand name medication every month, just counting down the days until the drug company’s patent expires. When this patent expires, a many generic versions will be ready to be sold on the free market. Many of us don’t know exactly how the drug patent process works.

Drug patents in the U.S. protect a brand name drug for 20 years. This seems like an awful long time, huh? Well, thankfully, this time period starts when clinical trials first begin on a medication.This/tag helps explain it more. The process spanning from clinical trials until the drug is actually on the market can take many years. By the time most medications hit the market, there are between 7 and twelve years left of this patent protection. This means no other company can produce this medication for that time period. No competition means high prices.

Once the patent on a drug has expired, the medication is fair-game to be produced by other manufacturers. The drug companies who originally held the patent on profitable medications have been known to be very creative; they often come out with slight variations on the original product and market them as far superior.

Intellectual Property: A Look at American Socioeconomic Values

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

While American socioeconomic values aren’t popular everywhere, they’ve been good for America and other countries who believe in them. Private property rights are one of the cornerstones of American socioeconomic thought and intellectual property rights must be included under that umbrella.

The argument for intellectual property rights is straightforward and the positive effects of having those rights in place are undeniable. If intellectual property did not exist, then people would be unable to benefit financially from their ideas and would be far less likely to spend the time, effort and personal capital it takes to bring those ideas to fruition. In the case of corporations who spend billions of dollars in research and development to bring a product to market, they would be unable to recoup those costs and would inevitably fold.

People who make the claim that developing countries are harmed by the enforcement of intellectual property rights are missing several key points. First, when governments ignore intellectual property they contribute to unemployment not only in the United States but in their own countries. In addition, if corporations stopped spending those billions on research, then new discoveries in medicine would cease. How would the third world benefit from that?