The justices unanimously found the world's largest seed producer has intellectual property control over its best-selling "Roundup Ready" soybeans.

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International legal barriers may pose another challenge to Facebook's attempts to control its intellectual property abroad.

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Many firms, she said, were registering trademarks to help them keep control of intellectual properties that were now out of copyright.

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Also, it can cut down on lead times, reduce inventory levels, diminish some currency risks, increase control over intellectual property, and reduce supply chain disruption risks.

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With patents on the new technology used in manufacturing, China would control the intellectual property and licensing on the products that would be used all over the world.

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As chemical companies sought to consolidate control over intellectual property, they set off a wave of lawsuits that has mired the industry in the courtrooms for close on a decade.

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In 2002 the Institute of Medicine (which is not part of the NIH, but is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences) called for the creation of a National Vaccine Authority that would have sweeping responsibilities, including market research, the establishment of priorities, control of intellectual-property rights, the conduct of in-house research and development and the financing of clinical trials of candidate vaccines.

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The idea is to harmonise secrecy, intellectual-property and export-control regimes, all of which sounds sensible.

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Those who demand spending control and oppose tax hikes hold the intellectual high ground.

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Or does empathy so control -- and even corrode -- our nature that it affects every intellectual argument?

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Just as music and movie companies cannot easily lock down the digital security of their intellectual properties in the great moving tide of bits, we as individuals have lost the lockdown control of our identities that people took for granted 20 years ago.

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