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  • Registering A Trademark - Tips And Necessities
    By: Tony Philip | - A trademark signifies the origin of a product. It is a means of protecting intellectual property within an association, and registering a trademark enhances the right to use the property or product. Registering a trademark can obtain the association a conclusive right to harmless use of the product or property. Although you may unknowingly be a part of violating your rights, you have the provision of an "innocent infringement" defense.

    Knowing the basics about registering a tradem ...

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  • Ipam + Ip Analytics = A Whole Solution
    By: Tyron Stading | - More than two-thirds of a company"s asset value is represented by Intellectual Property (IP). As a result, companies often invest a lot of human and financial resources in an IP Asset Management (IPAM) system or process. Regardless of how sophisticated or basic the system, though, the effort to manage an IP Portfolio can be significant.

    It is important to consider the fact that an IPAM is essentially a document management system. Such systems are very good at helping people i ...

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  • Legal Remedies On Counterfeited Foreign Products
    By: Sino-Link Consulting | - Due to the vast market and the open policy in China, more and more foreign businessmen have been entering into China's market since 1980s; they expanded in China's market and have already gained a large share. However, neither the FERRERO ROCHER which entered in China's market in 1980s, nor the "Crocs" shoes which are now sweeping China, can avoid being imitated. With cheap price and similar appearance, the imitations immediately erode the China market share of foreign products, and bring tremen ...
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  • Management And Control On Commercial Password Products Within China
    By: Sino-Link Consulting | - As the pace of economic activities speeds up, the trade products in the international market are wide varieties progressively, meanwhile, due to the deepening of international cooperation and communication, merchants in different countries become more closed, and China are also opening to businessmen in various countries. However, for protecting the national interests, Chinese government set corresponding limits on special foreign investment and importing goods. Commercial password products are ...
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  • Confidentiality Agreements For Small Businesses
    By: Ross Zettler | - In a Confidentiality Agreements, also known as a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), two parties agree in writing to keep certain information confidential between them. While it is advisable for small business owners to secure the services of an employment or intellectual property attorney, non-lawyers with business experience can draft said contracts independently if they keep in mind the principles outlined in this article.

    The confidentiality agreement must first identify the partie ...

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  • Protecting Your Intellectual Property
    By: dev738 | - Registered patent attorney Patricia McQueeney http BrinkleyMcNerney.com explains, Intellectual property can be broken down into four types patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

    A patent deals with a completely new invention a useful item, a novel look on an already existing item, or a new plant species. Depending on the type of patent, they are good for between fourteen and twenty years. The scope of a patent is defined by its claims. A claim is only one sentence but ...

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  • Protecting Your Ideas...
    By: sujata | - The intellectual property transfer market is now estimated to be worth over $100 billion. If you have a new idea, a patent or an invention, you may be able to license it or sell it for millions of dollars. Many Fortunes 500 companies are now making their intellectual property available for sale or licensing at new online intellectual-property exchanges. These companies are trying to maximize their return on research and development investment and generate a new source of revenue by licensing the ...
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  • Areas Of Business And Commercial Law
    By: Mark Dacanay | - A business and commercial attorney specializes in laws that govern business transactions.

    They handle issues and concerns like things related to the sale and distribution of goods and services, the financing of credit transactions, and negotiable instruments.

    There are different areas of business and commercial law. Some of them are:

    Employment Law

    This area of business and commercial law covers the employers rights and responsibiliti ...

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  • Intellectual Property Law Firm
    By: David Done | - An intellectual property law firm should have attorneys with several years of experience protecting the rights of artists, designers, engineers, and business developers. There are several different types of intellectual property, so a law firm might employ lawyers that specialize in individual topics such as copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and industrial designs.

    Why are Intellectual Property Law Firms Useful?

    Intellectual property law gives incentive to ...

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  • Patents, Trademarks, And Copyrights"'"protecting The Rights Of Creative Minds
    By: Nemelou Despuez | - Patents, trademarks, and copyrights laws were created to promote innovations and progress while protecting the rights of artists, inventors, and designers who have dedicated their time and effort to create original works.

    According to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), protecting and upholding the rights of the creative minds will promote technological and industrial progress that will strengthen the economy.

    Some people think that service marks, patents, t ...

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  • What A Trade Mark Attorney Can Do For You
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - Your brand name, logo or distinctive mark makes your business distinguishable from your competitors and instantly recognised by potential clients/customers. If you do not register your trade mark you become vulnerable to those who would exploit your own success by copying your brand. You need to be in a position to take action if this kind of situation arises. In this article we shall look at how you can protect your brand and how the use of a trade mark attorney can help not only with the trad ...
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  • Protecting Javascript Code With Jasob Javascript Obfuscator
    By: Markus Green | - JavaScript is a de-facto standard scripting language for Web automation. Used on billions of Web pages and recognized by all modern Web browsers, the language earned popularity among Web developers worldwide.

    JavaScript applets used in Web pages cannot be compiled to produce an executable file. Due to the interpreting nature of scripting languages, JavaScript applications are embedded into Web pages in the form of source code, which means that the full script is available for anyo ...

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  • Patent And/or Trademark That New Product?
    By: Glend Anderson | - Your company has developed a really nifty new product. Should you file for a patent, and should you trademark the products name? Like so many other things in life, business, marriage and sports, it depends.

    Patent a New Product? First of all, you cannot actually patent a product or service. You can only patent the innovation that went into creating that product or service. Applying for and receiving a patent has several benefits.
    1.Protection and Exclusivit ...

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  • Ustr Releases Global Intellectual Property Agenda
    By: Chris Singer | - The U.S. Trade Representative recently released its Special 301 annual report to Congress which outlined the Administrations global intellectual property agenda. At PhRMA we believe that maintaining global incentives for research and development of new medicines is essential for the continued development of treatments used around the world to help improve the health and lives of patients. The importance of these incentives is underscored by the current threat of a pandemic health ...
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  • A New York Patent Attorney's Suit Of Armor: Integrity
    By: Ty Wilson | - A great majority of the news on patents deals with patent infringement, patent law, and, not coincidentally, it brings to mind the overriding importance of ethics in protecting intellectual property--and profits.

    As a patent attorney with offices in Florida Nevada and New York, the long term growth of my business depends on the integrity of the patent applications I file, and recent news underlines its significance. In a recent online edition of the International Herald-Tribune, R ...

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  • Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » WTO Ministers Say Complete Doha Round Or Suffer Irrelevance Shared By: Ipnewswatch - Intellectual Property Watch provides independent news, features and analysis on international IP policymaking such as trade, health, digital rights,...

  • Join SMG in Calgary for the Managing Social Media Conference March 2010 - SMG Helps Business Navigate the Social Web Shared By: timothypeters - She is part of the Faculty along side... , Partner & Intellectual Property

  • New FTC guidance affecting online advertising takes effect December 1, 2009 « IP Spotlight Shared By: DanaNewman - Jim Singer is a partner with the law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP, where he focuses on intellectual property acquisition, protection, enforcement and...

  • Venezuela presumably to centralize invention rights - Daily News - EL UNIVERSAL Shared By: InventorsLab - Both the words of Minister of Trade Eduardo Samán and... prepared by the Autonomous Service for Intellectual Property (SAPI) point to that direction.

  • What do I need before I get started? Shared By: BBXSA - . Read more on how to protect your intellectual property Contact your nearest   website for more information on protecting your intellectual property...

  • Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights: How to Protect Your Brilliant Idea Shared By: glennsnews - Safeguarding your company's intellectual property through patents, trademarks or copyrights will allow you to seek damages, a big deterrent to...

  • Free Trade Agreement Blog: Colombia - US trade deal stuck in the mud Shared By: FTA_Facilitator - . - Meattradenewsdaily - presidency in pursuing cases before the World Trade Organization on protecting intellectual property and restraining Chinese...

  • Five Tips to a Security-aware Business | Symantec Shared By: SymPublishing - Small business owners’ cybersecurity... intellectual property and customer data, according to the 2009 National Small Business Cybersecurity Study.

  • FileMask – New Algorithm To Protect Privacy Data + Extra Bonuses. | 7down Shared By: khuraam - It Owns New Algorithm With Independent Intellectual Property Rights. It Masks Secret Data To Avoid Being Read And Modified. You can leave a response ,...

  • Bush Administration to Sony: It's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer Shared By: zk8susakfwi - And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt...


  • Protecting Against Intellectual Property Theft By Ex-employees
    By: Andrew Frowen | - According to the Office of National Statistics, the number of unemployed people in Britain increased by 177,000 in the three months to February 2009, driven by a large number of redundancies. As businesses layoff staff in droves in a bid to survive the recession, many are failing to put adequate computer security measures in place to protect against abuse by disgruntled ex-employees.

    And the threat of intellectual property theft should not be underestimated. According to a recent ...

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  • Don't Overlook Security When Outsourcing
    By: Alice Khosravy | - How crucial is security when it comes to IT outsourcing? A breach in security can harm your company's reputation and negatively impact revenue, as well as cause a loss of intellectual property. Intellectual property is probably one of the most valuable assets your company possesses and you can't afford for someone to steal it.

    Black Book's 2007 State of the Outsourcing Industry Survey showed that 66 percent of the 22,000 respondents ranked security capabilities as the third most ...

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  • Generating Wealth Through Innovation
    By: Dave Rogers | - Much has been made of the demise of U.S. manufacturing. Once the U.S. was a manufacturing powerhouse, but much of its industry has now moved overseas or south of the border to low-cost countries such as China, India and Mexico. Eighty percent of the U.S. economy is now serviced based. But, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs, the U.S. still has the world's largest gross domestic product (GDP) at about $14 trillion. That is three times larger than Japan's GDP (which ranks second) and four ...
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  • Use A Patent Attorney To Protect Your Potential
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - It is said, in philosophical circles at least, that there is no such thing as original thought. Whether or not this is true is up for debate. Although many great inventions come into being year after year following a patent application; there are numerous cases where one inventor has been pipped to the post by another after what can only described as a simultaneous bloom of identical ideas. In fact, the incarnation of the most widespread communication device, the telephone, is a perfect exampl ...
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  • What Are The Affects Of Slogans On Brand Building?
    By: Kevin JSmith | - Stepping a bit away from the already mentioned McWitchhunt (its when McDonalds sues anyone in the food business who has a name starting with Mc), lets take a closer look at such things as slogans and short phrases, and the legal stuff concerning this things.
    Slogan is one of the most important instruments in marketing. It is wrong to think that the main battlefield of marketing companies is the advertising, commercials or big boards, actually these people fight for our brains. Wh ...

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  • Usb Flash Devices: The Small Gadget That Could Pose A Big Risk To Your Organisation
    By: Andrew Frowen | - USB flash devices, the small sticks used to store data, are becoming increasingly prevalent. Typically smaller than a pack of chewing gum and weighing around 15g, they can be easily carried in a pocket, hidden at the back of a PC or lost on the bus.

    A 16 gigabyte USB flash device can currently be purchased new for under 20 GBP. To put this capacity in perspective, a typical MS Word document of 10 pages has a file size of approximately 60 kilobytes. This means you could potentially ...

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  • Two Aspects Of The Debate On Pharmaceutical Patents Still Enforced
    By: James Njoroge | - Latin America has made great strides in protecting pharmaceutical patents still held by the intellectual property holders. Through free trade agreements such as NAFTA as well as some decisions made by South American governments, particularly Brazil, pharmaceutical patent protection is increasing and the pharmaceutical industry is growing and innovating. These steps by Latin American governments highlight a larger piece of the pharmaceutical patents debate which is ensuring an economic incentive ...
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  • Errors And Omissions Insurance: A Vital Component In Protecting Against The Unexpected
    By: James Cochran | - Many business owners have taken proper steps to insure against property loss and injury claims, the more traditional forms of commercial insurance coverage. However, they may have overlooked protecting themselves against claims of professional negligence.

    Errors and Omissions (E&O) insurance, also known as Professional Liability insurance, protects organizations or individuals against claims of financial loss due to negligence in the delivery of professional services. Professional ...

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  • Protecting One"s Work Thru Copyright
    By: Darren Agaton | - What is copyright?

    Copyright is a legal concept, ratified by the government, that gives exclusive rights to the author or maker of an original work to access, reproduce, distribute, perform and present his work publicly.

    The Copyright Law of the United States and Related Laws (Chapter 1), states Copyright protection subsists in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expressionfrom which they can be perceived, reproduced or otherwise commu ...

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  • Sender Keeps Control Over Shared Confidential Documents Using Protectmydoc.com
    By: Anowar Shahjahan | - ProtectMyDoc, Division of VERTX SYSTEMS, LLC today announced the release of ProtectMyDoc.com FileOn Permission Manager Software utility which allows senders of confidential information to set permissions to documents restricting the receiver of the documents from printing, viewing, saving and sharing such confidential information with others.
    When dealing with legal contract or confidential information, working on secret project or sending information to a vendor, the sender has no ...

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  • Why Outsourcing To Vietnam Is A Sound Business Decision
    By: Tlahui Calva | - 1. Overview
    This document lays out the business case for meeting your company’s software development needs by outsourcing to Vietnam. It first outlines factors to consider in deciding which offshore locations to outsource to. Then it considers those factors one at a time for Vietnam, concluding that the country is a promising offshore location for outsourced software development and for business’ other IT needs.

    2. Factors to Consider Regarding the Offshore Prov ...

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  • What It Takes To Venture In Joint Business (jv)
    By: z.pduvedi | - It is important to have some legal understanding. You will need to legally, protect self. The legal aspects will protect academic property, and IP (intellectual property). Any business accordingly too few an IP compilation is one of the strongest plans for growth in business. Continue below. According to sources, businesses build IP portfolios by patenting their products. Business with licenses has proof of trust, yet, it is important to check the background when considering Joint Venture. Accor ...
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  • Music Piracy And The New Musician
    By: Lionel.Wayne | - Today click-and-download technology presents a greater threat to the music recording industry than all other past music-delivery technologies combined.

    Music piracy exists in 3 different planes:

    Illegally mass-manufactured pirate music CDs
    Illegal copies of legitimately purchased music CDs
    Illegally downloaded digital copies of recorded music

    A recent research study on the economic impact of music piracy (Institute for Policy Innovation, ...

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  • Your Intellectual Property Deserves Iron-clad Security From Your Outsourcer
    By: Hayden Hong | - Insight

    Intellectual property security breaches are making headline news with alarming frequency and creating headaches for consumers, businesses, governments and institutions everywhere. The specter of identity and intellectual property theft hangs over everyones head, brought home by incidents like the following:

    ► Two 200-MB files containing incomplete portions of the source code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT operating systems were stolen and posted t ...

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  • Where In The World Is The Best Place To Offshore Your R&d: China Or India?
    By: Hayden Hong | - Insight

    The reality of business is that companies must do more with less to stay competitive and continually search out new ways to improve products and time-to-market to lead their markets. Top companies have long found it makes good business sense to outsource a business function from making parts to delivering payroll to wherever it can be done the best. With the Telecommunications Act of 1996 came the wave of fiber-optic cable and a new capability that truly enabled th ...

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  • Naming Your Business: Identity Crisis?
    By: Akhil Shahani | - First child or first business, finding a nice name for it can make people work up a sweat. Looking for that perfect name which is suitable for your business, and is yet memorable and creative sounding could prove especially difficult. While were not going to run up a list of baby business names, we could certainly help you go about finding the one.

    Apart from helping your business get the recall it deserves, paying enough attention to naming your business can ...

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  • Intellectual Property Law - Six Ways To Protect Your Intellectual Property
    By: Dave Davies | - An idea might be a dime a dozen, but the right property protected idea can be worth millions to you and your business. Ideas are the core of many new businesses. When you get new ideas, you might be excited to share those ideas with others. Reconsider that thought. Share your ideas too soon, and you may find them under the arm of a competitor.

    Why should you be concerned about intellectual property rights? Intellectual property law exists to protect your rights to your inventions ...

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  • Fine Information About Digital Signage
    By: risevision | - Avocent and its partner Gas Station TV is about to launch the first marketing program digital signage high definition wireless service stations.

    Avocet Corporation today announced a partnership with clients decisive Gas Station TV (GSTV), the leading entertainment marketing digital signage solutions, providing programs on video screens loudspeakers fitted with pumps integrated service stations from the biggest brands. The technology high definition wireless Avocent eliminates the nee ...

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  • What Is Theft?
    By: Incbizz | - This week I read an article that really stopped me in my tracks. It related
    an incident where the writer of the article found out that one of his
    employees had stolen a packet of toilet tissue from the store cupboard and
    fired him. The employer cited that if the employee had stolen a packet of
    toilet tissue then he did not know where the stealing would stop. The article
    went on to say that the same employee had come to him years later and thanked him and i ...

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  • Protests, Silence And The Public Domain- Constitutional Limits On Copyright Duration
    By: manupatra1 | - Introduction

    Ever since its inception as a formalized institution in law, intellectual property and especially the law relating to copyright1 has been subject to the constant tension between protecting the interests of the 'creator' of the work and the public interests in the such works, best illustrated by the concept of "public domain" in intellectual property parlance.2 It has always been the endeavour of law makers (inclusive of the judiciary3) across the globe to strike the r ...

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  • A Perfectly Clean Uninstall
    By: Konstantin Polyakov | - Uninstalling a Windows application leaves multiple traces such as abandoned registry keys, configuration files and shared libraries that are no longer used by any application. When you are looking for a perfect solution to your problem, you are typically downloading and testing dozens of different applications distributed on the try-before-you-buy basis. After you complete your search, you'll decide on just one application, and will want to remove the other products you've tested. But do you rea ...
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  • Protecting Your Domain Name: Understanding The Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
    By: Robert Masud | - Despite the simple functionality on many levels of a domain name, it is vital to the success of an online business enterprise. At its heart, a domain name essentially is an address that tells a user of the Internet how to find a particular website. In many instances, the owners of trade or service marks use their marks as part of their business domain names. Nonetheless, there are many instances in which someone else may take advantage and start using the trade or service mark as part of anot ...
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  • Purchase Order Financing Is China's Advantage
    By: DYLAN SUN | - Manufacturing is a basic Chinese industry. China's political and economic system is relatively stable compared to other developing nations such as many countries in Africa. According the U.S. Census bureau, Foreign Trade Division, imports from China in 2006 were over $287 Billion dollars; for the first five months of 2007 imports from China were over $120 Billion dollars.

    What are some of the main risks associated with doing business with a manufacturer in China? Our legal s ...

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  • How To Protect Your Ideas Fast And Inexpensively
    By: Tatiana Escalada | - If you have a good idea, you are probably wondering how to protect it and if you really should. Worried about where to start and how. The thought of looking for and hiring an attorney with expertise on the field just makes you dizzy, it makes the process seem endless, complicated and expensive. So you decide to make the mistake that many artist, entrepreneurs and creative make. You dice you can trust your work to a couple of good friends, or maybe couple of serious investors and the most optimis ...
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  • Copyright Your Work.
    By: Tatiana Escalada | - The internet was originally designed to be a place where people from all over the world could meet, and openly exchange information with each other. Today the term openly exchanging information' has grown to piracy and abusing the power of the internet. With so many publishing houses allowing direct downloads of content it has become very easy for people to simply download an ebook and distribute it freely over the internet. In fact the fear of piracy and illegal copying of content w ...
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  • The Basics Of Chinese Trademark Registration
    By: Dan Harris | - Though the United States media have published a number of stories deriding China's intellectual property protection, those articles nearly always neglect to mention that in most instances involving trademarks, the fault lies with the foreign company, not with Chinese enforcement. The reality is that many foreign companies fail to register their trademarks in China and thus have no real right to complain about any "infringement" there. To expect protection, foreign companies must register their t ...
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  • Is Ebook Protection Really Necessary?
    By: A. Ellis | - I hear many people stating that we should not worry so much about protection and focus on our customers. Documents will be misused and that's that...you can't do anything about it!

    Those saying this must not have much to lose or risk by this type of thinking. Or they have never really had their information stolen, distributed or otherwise exploited in a manner beyond their control... at least not to any large degree.

    Because once it happens to you - once you see you ...

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  • Intellectual Property Protection In China
    By: Jakedanger | - If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, then the Chinese can be very sincere flatterers indeed. But if you prefer prosperity over flattery it would be wise to take precautions against losing your shirt (or at least the rights to it) in one of the world's most dangerous IP jungles. It isn't that the legal regime is deficient it's enforcement that's lacking. For the present at least, China is a net importer of intellectual property. A relatively lawless IP environment is advantageo ...
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  • Protecting Intellectual Property
    By: Robert Valentine | - Among its many influences on modern culture, the Internet has provided a virtually unfettered outlet for writers, artists, musicians, inventions and ideas. Today more than ever, an individual's creative contributions can take on lives of their own, generating wealth in ways and from ideas the author or inventor never imagined. Such intellectual property has value under the law and should be included in an estate plan to protect heirs' rights to preserve those creations and any related financial ...
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  • How To Leverage Your Intellectual Property For Maximum Profit
    By: Suzanne Falter-Barns | - Copyright 2006 Suzanne Falter-Barns

    I don't know about you, but I would like to "squeeze" as much potential (read "profits") out of every minute I work as possible.

    If I create something once, I better use it in at least three different ways, or I consider it a waste of time.

    Now this might mean different things to different people, but here is what it means to me:

    1. Save all emails you send to clients and turn them into articles. (NOT ...

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  • Protecting Your Intellectual Property - How Copyrights And Patents Affect Your Ebiz
    By: By Chris Malta & Robin Cowie | - You may not realize it, but you deal with intellectual property (IP) every day. If you own a website, that website is your intellectual property. The way you deal with IPyours and otherscan directly impact the success of your business.

    Whats Intellectual Property?

    Registered patent attorney Patricia McQueeney (http://BrinkleyMcNerney.com) explains, [Intellectual property] can be broken downinto four types: patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade se ...

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  • Protecting Your Intellectual Property
    By: Terry Frerker | - If you are a small business owner with an idea, an invention or a new product, you need to decide whether or not to create a proactive intellectual property strategy.

    What is Intellectual Property? It is any creation of the mind and includes literary and artistic work, inventions as well as symbols, names and images. It also includes any designs you use in conducting your business.

    There are two categories of Intellectual Property. The first, Industrial Property, ...

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