We'll leave that to the federal courts to decide (we've heard they're good at that sort of thing), but Mike Masnick over at TechDirt nailed this one: basically Apple is getting sued because the tools they've been using to protect other people's intellectual property (namely that of the record industry) supposedly violate some other person's intellectual property.
Mr. JASON TANZ (Author, "Other People's Property"): I think it was just fear, you know.
In that war and since, the United States has demonstrated repeatedly and consistently that we covet no other country's property.
Bostic's law office, other property, church and children's schools are in the district.
This is a region that has long ripped other people's intellectual property with impunity, from phony Madonna CDs in an Acehnese bazaar to bootleg Hollywood releases selling in the lanes around Zhongnanhai.
The group's other interests, including property development and hotels, may take hits as well.
After that, the property's other tenants often demand rent concessions or lease terminations, further sapping the mall's cash flow.
Under government plans, there will no protection for burglars and other trespassers who enter someone's property uninvited and are attacked.
In addition to the government's efforts to cool the property market, China Xintiandi's IPO would come as other companies are finding it increasingly hard to get their deals done in Hong Kong, the world's busiest venue for IPOs in the three years to 2011.
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But U.S. companies with patents and other intellectual property get a much better deal.
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That it's located on the other end of the property from the pool house is no accident.
By so doing, he blocked American companies and individuals from pursuing legal remedies against European, Canadian and other foreign entities trafficking in U.S. property confiscated by the communist regime of Fidel Castro.
That means he pays his accountant to make complex allocations dividing the condo's mortgage interest, property taxes and other costs between his personal use and rental use.
And like some other boating hubs, local officials aren't eager to add more berths when there are so many other competing uses for the city's limited waterfront property.
But, argues the World Bank's Mr Dollar, China's property rights have improved far faster than other countries', and they are better than those in many other developing countries.
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It's going to be a while before Gray and other property owners get some certainty from their government.
The property market's distortions feed through to other sectors, such as retailing.
According to Birmingham's annual reports, he has other interests in energy, property and water companies (he has a clothing holding, too), but little else is known about how he amassed wealth.
Given the bank's vast array of offices around the country, might other property schemes be on the drawing board?
Many of them have their own boards, police departments and other services, which contributes to some of the country's highest property taxes.
But in my view the really abusive thing that has emerged in the revelations over the last week is this tendency for some MP's to so-called 'flip' where they go from one home to the other and they transform themselves from MP's into sharp-suited property speculators doing up homes, selling them for a personal profit and then going onto the next property.
But other off-patent drugs are doing less well without intellectual property law's protection.
Other property IPOs in the pipeline include that of billionaire Adi Godrej's Godrej Properties and DB Realty, co-founded by Mumbai billionaires Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa.
The Bristal properties will be part of Harrison's Harrison Street Core Property Fund, whose investors include pension funds and other institutions.
The other big investor with TPG's real-estate program is Ivanhoe Cambridge, the property investor for Canadian pension manager Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec.
Like the pressure to de-list the US dollar as the base currency for international trade, with innovation activity shifting to Asia, countries other than the U.S. will have an increasingly larger say in international intellectual property rights, standards setting and commercialization of intellectual property.
FORBES: The locus of innovation has shifted away from the U.S.
In other words, Dubai's fortunes rest on much more than the fate of a single property, no matter how tall.
Sure, this is an unorthodox option, but it is notable that today, while prices for most other assets are flying high, it is still a buyer's market for premium waterfront property in many jurisdictions, and even for those prized trophy assets, private islands.
An audit by the state controller's office found the city had illegally raised property taxes, business license fees and other sources of revenue to pay the salaries.
Among other things Germany's top central banker wants to avoid a home replay of the credit and property boom whose excesses have been so harmful in Spain.
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